Productivity of volcanic-hosted massive sulfide districts: New constraints from the δ18O of quartz phenocrysts in cogenetic felsic rocks

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 459-462

  Huston, David L ^a,b   Taylor, Bruce E ^a   Bleeker, Wouter ^a   Watanabe, Donald H ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b AUSTRALIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRODUCTIVITY; QUARTZ; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TEMPERATURE; VOLCANOES; CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOLOGY; ROCKS; ZINC;

HYDROTHERMAL CELLS; LOW TEMPERATURES; QUARTZ PHENOCRYSTS; RHYOLITIC; VOLCANIC-HOSTED MASSIVE SULFIDES; COGENIC FELSIC ROCKS; ISOTOPIC ALTERATION; METAMORPHIC RECRYSTALLIZATION; PRODUCTIVITY; VOLCANIC-HOSTED MASSIVE SULFIDE DISTRICTS;

VOLCANIC ROCKS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

FELSIC ROCK; I-TYPE ROCK; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; MASSIVE SULFIDE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PHENOCRYST; QUARTZ; RHYOLITE; ZINC; EMPLACEMENT; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; S-TYPE ROCK; I TYPE ROCK; MASSIVE SULPHIDE; MINERALIZATION; OXYGEN-18; S TYPE ROCK; VOLCANOGENIC DEPOSIT;

EID: 0029659209     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0459:POVHMS>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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