Christopher Jenkins, James E. Mungall, Michael L. Zientek, Gelu Costin, and Zhuo-Sen Yao The origin and parental magma for layered cumulates in the Lower Banded series (LBS) and the J-M […]
Authors: Andy Moore, Gelu Costin, Alexander Proyer Abstract Models for a xenocryst origin for kimberlite olivines emphasise the similarity between their core compositions and those in mantle peridotites. While this permits a […]
Ming Tang, Cin-Ty Lee, Wei-Qiang Ji, Rui Wang, Gelu Costin Abstract Porphyry ore deposits, Earth’s most important resources of copper, molybdenum, and rhenium, are strongly associated with felsic magmas showing […]
B. N. Moine, N. Bolfan-Casanova, I. B. Radu, D. A. Ionov, G. Costin, A. V. Korsakov, A. V. Golovin, O. B. Oleinikov, E. Deloule & J. Y. Cottin Abstract Trace […]
Yudovskaya, M. A., Costin, G., Sluzhenikin, S. F., Kinnaird, J. A., Ueckermann, H., & Abramova, V. D. Mafic sills of the Marginal Zone are widespread within the footwall of […]
Roger N Scoon, Gelu Costin, Andrew Mitchell, Bertrand Moine Abstract The Platreef Unit is a deceptively complex sequence of layered cumulates located in the northern limb of the 2.055 Ga-old Bushveld Complex. The […]
Rais Latypov, Sofya Chistyakova, Gelu Costin, Olivier Namur, Steve Barnes & Willem Kruger Abstract The formation of some Earth’s monomineralic igneous rocks appears to be prohibited by constraints imposed by […]
Ming Tang, Cin-Ty A. Lee, Gelu Costin, Heidi E. Höfer Abstract The Earth’s continental crust is thought to originate from melting of the mantle, but it is too felsic and […]
Marina A. Yudovskaya, Gelu Costin, Vladimir Shilovskikh, Ilya Chaplygin, Matthew McCreesh, Judith Kinnaird Abstract Textures of Bushveld chromite from thin seams and accessory disseminations in the Platreef and the northernmost Waterberg Project area were compared with textures […]
Sedimentary organic matter characterization of the Whitehill shales (Karoo Basin, South Africa): An integrated quantitative approach using FE-EPMA and LA-ICP-MS Gelu Costin, Annette E. Götz, Katrin Ruckwied Permian black shales […]