Can oxygen isotope halos be produced around high-temperature dolostone-hosted ore deposits? Evidence from the Superior District, Arizona

Economic Geology

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 639-650

  Friehauf, Kurt C ^a   Pareja, Guillermo A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE ROCK; ORE DEPOSIT; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RATIO; REPLACEMENT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032442936     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.93.5.639     Document Type: Article

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