Facies analysis of volcano-sedimentary successions hosting massive sulfide deposits in the Iberian pyrite belt, Spain

Economic Geology

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 867-882

  Soriano, Carles ^a,b   Marti, Joan ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MASSIVE SULFIDE; MINERALIZATION; PYRITE;

SPAIN;

EID: 0033383315     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.94.6.867     Document Type: Article

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