Geochemistry and petrogenesis of the East Branch Brook metagabbroic dykes in the Sawyer Brook fault zone, Clarence Stream gold prospect, southwestern New Brunswick

Atlantic Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages 175-190

  Thorne, Kathleen G ^a   Lentz, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIKE; GEOCHEMISTRY; GOLD; METAGABBRO; PETROGENESIS; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING; THOLEIITE;

EID: 0035413190     PISSN: 08435561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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