Hydrothermal fluid evolution within the Cadillac tectonic zone, Abitibi greenstone belt, Canada: Relationship to auriferous fluids in adjacent second- and third-order shear zones

Economic Geology

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1203-1225

  Neumayr, Peter ^a   Hagemann, Steffen G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROTHERMAL FLUIDS;

CARBON; COOLING; DEFORMATION; PHASE SEPARATION; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; TECTONICS;

GOLD DEPOSITS;

ARCHEAN; FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; GOLD; GREENSTONE BELT; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; MINERALIZATION; QUARTZ VEIN; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING;

CANADA;

EID: 0036766405     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.97.6.1203     Document Type: Article

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