Late-stage sulfide liquid mobility in the main mass of the Sudbury Igneous Complex: Examples from the Victor Deep, McCreedy East, and Trillabelle Deposits

Economic Geology

Volumn 97, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1563-1576

  Mungall, James E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIQUID MOBILITY;

COMPOSITION; CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; ROCKS; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SILICATES; TEXTURES;

SULFIDE MINERALS;

FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; MASSIVE SULFIDE; MELT; MINERALIZATION; MOBILITY;

CANADA;

EID: 0036872641     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.97.7.1563     Document Type: Article

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