Copper-gold mineralisation in New Guinea: Tectonics, lineaments, thermochronology and structure

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 737-752

  Hill, K C ^a   Kendrick, R D ^b   Crowhurst, P V ^b   Gow, P A ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Copper; Geodynamics; Gold; Irian Jaya; Lineaments; Mineralisation; New Guinea Fold Belt; Papua New Guinea; Transfer faults

Indexed keywords

COPPER; FAULTING; GOLD; LINEAMENT; MINERALIZATION; NEOTECTONICS; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

NEW GUINEA;

EID: 0036049511     PISSN: 08120099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-0952.2002.00944.x     Document Type: Article

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