A chemical model for the Devonian remobilization process in the Cambrian volcanic-hosted massive sulfide Rosebery deposit, western Tasmania

Economic Geology

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 529-546

  Zaw, Khin ^a   Huston, D L ^b   Large, R R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; MASSIVE SULFIDE; METAMORPHISM; TECTONIC SETTING; VOLCANOGENIC DEPOSIT;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0032734434     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.94.4.529     Document Type: Article

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