A comparison of fluids causing post-depositional hydrothermal alteration in Archaean basement granitoids and the Witwatersrand Basin

Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 66, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 111-122

  Klemd, R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT ROCK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLUID COMPOSITION; FLUID INCLUSION; GRANITOID; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; QUARTZ; QUARTZ VEIN;

SOUTH AFRICA; WITWATERSRAND;

EID: 0008610210     PISSN: 09300708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01161724     Document Type: Article

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