Origin and granite alteration effects of hydrothermal fluid: Isotopic evidence from fluorite veins, Co. Galway, Ireland

Mineralium Deposita

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 34-43

  Menuge, J F ^a   Feely, M ^b   O'Reilly, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORITE; GRANITE; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; MINERALIZATION; WALLROCK ALTERATION;

IRELAND, COUNTY GALWAY;

EID: 0030839182     PISSN: 00264598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001260050070     Document Type: Article

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