Canadian Cordilleran Mississippi Valley-type deposits: A case for Devonian-Mississippian back-arc hydrothermal origin

Economic Geology

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1013-1036

  Nelson, Joanne ^a   Paradis, Suzanne ^a   Christensen, John ^a   Gabites, Janet ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REGIONAL METALLOGENY;

CARBONATES; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; ISOTOPES; SHALE; STRATIGRAPHY; SULFIDE MINERALS; TECTONICS;

LEAD DEPOSITS;

BACKARC BASIN; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEVONIAN; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; METALLOGENESIS; MINERALIZATION; MISSISSIPPI VALLEY-TYPE DEPOSIT; MISSISSIPPIAN; TECTONIC SETTING;

CANADA;

EID: 0036701251     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.97.5.1013     Document Type: Article

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