Hydrothermal processes related to movement of fluid from plastic into brittle rock in the magmatic-epithermal environment

Economic Geology

Volumn 94, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1193-1211

  Fournier, Robert O ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

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FLUID FLOW; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MAGMATISM; PHASE TRANSITION; TRANSITION ZONE;

EID: 0033505963     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.94.8.1193     Document Type: Article

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