Salt dome-controlled sulfide precipitation of paleoproterozoie Fe-Cu Sulfide deposits, Eastern Liaoning, Northeastern China

Economic Geology

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-14

  Wang, An Jian ^a   Peng, Q I Ming ^b,c   Palmer, Martin R ^c  

^a CHANGSHA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SALT DOME; SULPHIDE PRECIPITATION;

CHINA;

EID: 0031875728     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.93.1.1     Document Type: Article

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