Tectonothermal implications of laser 40Ar/39Ar ages of sulphide-bearing veins and their host rocks in the Willyama Supergroup, South Australia

Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-22

  Bierlein, F P ^a,c   Foster, D A ^b   Plimer, I R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; EMPLACEMENT; HOST ROCK; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; PETROGENESIS; PETROLOGY; SHEAR ZONE; SULFIDE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; VEIN (GEOLOGY);

AUSTRALIA; OLARY BLOCK; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0007858580     PISSN: 09300708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf01165760     Document Type: Article

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