Late Archean collision and delamination in the southwest Yilgarn craton: The driving force for Archean orogenic lode gold mineralization?

Economic Geology

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 115-122

  Qiu, Yumin ^a   Groves, David I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; COLLISION ZONE; CRATON; DELAMINATION; GOLD; MINERALIZATION;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0033045849     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.94.1.115     Document Type: Article

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