Sulfur and oxygen isotope studies of the interaction between pelitic xenoliths and basaltic magma at the Babbitt and Serpentine Cu-Ni deposits, Duluth Complex, Minnesota

Economic Geology

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1063-1075

  Arcuri, Terry ^a   Ripley, Edward M ^a   Hauck, Steven A ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; EMPLACEMENT; MAGMA CHEMISTRY; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RATIO; SULFUR ISOTOPE; XENOLITH;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032462163     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.93.7.1063     Document Type: Article

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