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Werdingite from the Urungwe District, Zimbabwe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

Edward S. Grew ,
Martin G. Yates ,
Charles K. Shearer  and
Michael Wiedenbeck
Edward S. Grew
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469, USA
Martin G. Yates
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469, USA
Charles K. Shearer
Affiliation:
Institute of Meteoritics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
Michael Wiedenbeck
Affiliation:
Advanced Materials Laboratory, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106, USA
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Keywords

werdingitegrandidieriteprismatineZimbabwe
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 61 , Issue 408 , October 1997 , pp. 713 - 718
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1997

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