Use of illite for K/Ar dating of hydrothermal precious and base metal mineralization in Central Slovak Neogene volcanic rocks

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 353-364

  Kraus, Ivan ^a   Chernyshev, Igor V ^b   Šucha, Vladimír ^a   Kovalenker, Vladimír A ^b   Lebedev, Vladimír A ^b   Šamajová, Eva ^a  

^a Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Advanced argillitic alteration; Illite polytypes; Mineral assemblage; Mixed layer illite smectite; Stratovolcanoes

Indexed keywords

HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; ILLITE; MINERALIZATION; POTASSIUM-ARGON DATING;

SLOVAKIA;

EID: 0033208330     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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