Evidence for multiple Palaeoproterozoic thermal events and magmatism adjacent to the Broken Hill Pb-Zn-Ag orebody, Australia

Precambrian Research

Volumn 90, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 203-238

  Nutman, Allen P ^a   Ehlers, Karin ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGMATISM; MINERALIZATION; PROTEROZOIC; URANIUM/LEAD DATING;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0032124452     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-9268(98)00049-7     Document Type: Article

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