The origin of uraninite, bitumen nodules, and carbon seams in Witwatersrand gold-uranium-pyrite ore deposits, based on a permo-triassic analogue

Economic Geology

Volumn 96, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1907-1920

  England, Gavin L ^a   Rasmussen, Birger ^a   Krapež, Bryan ^a   Groves, David I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BITUMEN NODULES;

DEFORMATION; GOLD DEPOSITS; HYDROCARBONS; POLYMERIZATION; POROSITY; RADIATION EFFECTS; SANDSTONE; URANIUM DEPOSITS;

PYRITES;

ARCHEAN; BITUMEN; CARBON; GOLD; ORE DEPOSIT; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PETROGENESIS; URANINITE;

AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0035736101     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.96.8.1907     Document Type: Article

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