Growth fault control of Early Archaean cherts, barite mounds and chert-barite veins, North Pole Dome, Eastern Pilbara, Western Australia

Precambrian Research

Volumn 88, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 25-52

  Nijman, Wouter ^a   De Bruijne, K C H ^a,b   Valkering, Mariëlle E ^a,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Shell UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

(Early) Archaean; Barite chert; North Pole Chert; Pilbara Craton; Sedimentation and tectonics

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAN; CHERT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TECTONICS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0031827191     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0301-9268(97)00062-4     Document Type: Article

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