Memoirs Geological Survey of India, Volume CIII : Geology and Geochemistry of the Sukinda Ultramafic Field, Cuttack District, Orissa/P.K. Banerjee. Reprint. Kolkata, Geological Survey of India, 2001, 171 p., $13.

Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Regional stratigraphy and structure. 3. Petrography of ultramafic silicate rocks and their hydrothermal derivatives : i). Petrology of the first phase ultramafites. ii). Petrology of the second phase ultramafites—the orthopyrpxenite suite. 4. Chromite deposits of Sukinda. 5. Structure of the Sukinda field. 6. Exploration geochemistry : i). Primary dispersion. ii). Secondary dispersion. 7. Origin of the Sukinda ultramafic complex. 8. Summary and conclusions. References. Locality index. No. 21415

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