Geology, Age and Style of the Advanced Argillic Alteration in the Kobui Area, Southwestern Hokkaido, Japan

Resource Geology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 263-281

  Watanabe, Yasushi ^a   Aoki, Masahiro ^a   Yamamoto, Kunihito ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b GAS AND METALS NATIONAL CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Advanced argillic alteration; Hydrothermal system; Kameda peninsula; Kobui; Lithocap; Plio Pleistocene; Southwestern Hokkaido; Tokiwamatsu Furube

Indexed keywords

ANDESITE; ANTIMONY; ARGILLACEOUS DEPOSIT; BRECCIA; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LEACHING; LITHOFACIES; PLIOCENE; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; SILICIFICATION; SMECTITE; TRIDYMITE;

HOKKAIDO; JAPAN;

EID: 0031319985     PISSN: 13441698     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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