Carboniferous barite-fluorite mineralization in the Late Devonian Kinsac Pluton, southern Nova Scotia

Atlantic Geology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 109-127

  Kontak, Daniel J ^a   Horne, Richard J ^a   Ansdell, Kevin ^b   Archibald, Douglas A ^c  

^a NS Dep Natural Resources   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARITE; CARBONIFEROUS; FLUORITE; MINERALIZATION; PLUTON; VEIN (GEOLOGY);

CANADA; KINSAC; NOVA SCOTIA;

EID: 0033499605     PISSN: 08435561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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