Feldspar metasomatism along a Proterozoic rift-basin margin - "Smoke" around a base-metal "fire" (HYC deposit, Australia) or a product of background diagenesis?

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 663-673

  Davidson, Garry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; DEPOSITS; FELDSPAR; FELDSPAR DEPOSITS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GROUNDWATER; IRON ALLOYS; LEAD ALLOYS; LEAD ZINC DEPOSITS; MANGANESE ALLOYS; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; METALS; MINERALOGY; PYRITES; SALINE WATER; SMOKE; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TEMPERATURE; ZINC ALLOYS;

ALKALI FELDSPAR; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROGEOCHEMICAL MODEL; LOW TEMPERATURES; NORTHERN TERRITORIES; SYNSEDIMENTARY; TRANSPRESSION; VOLCANICLASTICS;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

METASOMATISM; MINERAL ALTERATION; ORE DEPOSIT; STRATIFORM DEPOSIT;

AUSTRALIA; MCARTHUR RIVER; NORTHERN TERRITORY;

EID: 0032877561     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<0663:FMAAPR>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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