The hydrology of ore formation in the Southeast Missouri district: Numerical models of topography-driven fluid flow during the Ouachita orogeny

Economic Geology

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 913-935

  Appold, Martin S ^a,b   Garven, Grant ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID FLOW; METALLOGENESIS; MINERALIZATION; TOPOGRAPHY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033383916     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.94.6.913     Document Type: Article

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