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Monticellite in the Gwena kimberlite (Shaba, Zaïre): evidence of late-magmatic crystallization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

D. M. Kampata
Affiliation:
Géologie et Minéralogie, Université Catholique de Louvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
P. H. Nixon
Affiliation:
Dept of Earth Sciences, The University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
J. Salemink
Affiliation:
Afdeling Fysico-Chemische Geologie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 3001 Leuven-Heverlee, Belgium
D. Demaiffe
Affiliation:
Pétrologie et Géodynamique chimiqu, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium

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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1994

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