Use of pyrite microfabric as a key to tectono-thermal evolution of massive sulphide deposits - An example from Deri, southern Rajasthan, India

Mineralogical Magazine

Volumn 62A, Issue PART 2, 1998, Pages 197-212

  Tiwary, Anju ^a   Deb, Mihir ^a   Cook, Nigel J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

India; Massive sulphide; Metamorphism; Microfabric; Pyrite; Rajasthan

Indexed keywords

MASSIVE SULPHIDE; METAMORPHISM; MICROFABRIC; PYRITE;

INDIA;

EID: 0031821187     PISSN: 0026461X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1180/002646198547576     Document Type: Article

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