Petrogenesis of mafic-ultramafic rocks from the Precambrian Curaca terrane, Brazil

The Caraiba copper-rich hypersthenite-norite complex in the Early Proterozoic Curaca terrane of northern Bahia, Brazil, is not a tholeiitic layered sill as has been previously suggested. It is re-interpreted as a series of multiple dyke-like intrusions, possibly derived through partial melting of an...

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Main Author: de Oliveira, Elson Paiva
Published: University of Leicester 1990
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.315157