Identification of Fe3+ content in Epidote from Varan, Urumieh-Dokhtar magmatic arc, Iran: using FTIR and Raman spectroscopy

Subject Areas : Mineralogy

Bahman Rahimzadeh ¹ , Zheira Ghosoun ² , Fariborz Masoudi ³

1 - School of Earth Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
2 - School of Earth Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
3 - School of Earth Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2021-03-01 Accepted : 2021-07-05 Published : 2021-07-05

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