Scanning electron microscope-cathodoluminescence analysis of quartz reveals complex growth histories in veins from the Butte porphyry copper deposit, Montana

Geology

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 727-730

  Rusk, Brian ^a   Reed, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Butte; Cathodoluminescence; Fluid inclusions; Hydrothermal; Quartz; Veins

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRIC GROWTH ZONES;

BACKSCATTERING; COPPER DEPOSITS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); QUARTZ; RECRYSTALLIZATION (METALLURGY); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEXTURES;

GEOLOGY;

CATHODOLUMINESCENCE; COPPER; FLUID INCLUSION; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; MINERALIZATION; QUARTZ VEIN;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036693785     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0727:SEMCAO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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