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Appendix 2: The estimation of ferric iron in electron microprobe analysis of amphiboles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

John C. Schumacher
John C. Schumacher*
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Institut für Mineralogie-Petrologie-Geochemie, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg i. Br., 79104 Germany
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 61 , Issue 405 , April 1997 , pp. 312 - 321
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1997

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