Sources of basinal and Mississippi Valley-type mineralizing brines: Mixing of evaporated seawater and halite-dissolution brine

Chemical Geology

Volumn 143, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 121-125

  Chi, Guoxiang ^a   Savard, Martine M ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Basinal brines; Evaporated seawater; Halite dissolution; Mixing; MVT deposits

Indexed keywords

DISSOLUTION; FLUID MIXING; HALITE; MINERALIZING FLUID; MISSISSIPPI VALLEY TYPE DEPOSIT; SEAWATER;

EID: 0031411227     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2541(97)00096-X     Document Type: Article

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