Abstract
Chrome spinel (picotite, chromite) in heavy mineral associations of clastic sediments is classically interpreted as erosional product of mafic and ultramafic intrusive and volcanic rocks (Woletz 1963, 1967, Gasser 1967, Dietrich & Franz 1975). Very resistent to chemical and mechanical weathering, this mineral may occur in fine clastic sediments, deposited far from the source area, or even in ternary deposits, where lithoclasts of the source rocks have completely disappeared due to weathering (e. g. Gasser 1967).
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Baumgartner, P.O. (1985). Chrome Spinel and Clay Mineralogy. In: Jurassic Sedimentary Evolution and Nappe Emplacement in the Argolis Peninsula (Peloponnesus, Greece). Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-9319-0_7
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