Stratigraphy and sedimentary petrology of an Archean volcanic-sedimentary succession at Mt. Goldsworthy in the Pilbara Block, Western Australia: Implications of evaporite (nahcolite) and barite deposition

Precambrian Research

Volumn 120, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 55-79

  Sugitani, Kenichiro ^a   Mimura, Koichi ^a   Suzuki, Kazuhiro ^a   Nagamine, Koichiro ^a   Sugisaki, Ryuichi ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MEIJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Barite; Corboy formation; Hydrothermal; Nahcolite; Pilbara

Indexed keywords

BARIUM SULFATE;

ARCHEAN; BARITE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EVAPORITE; PETROLOGY; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; STRATIGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PETROLOGY; ROCK; SEDIMENT; STRATIFICATION; VOLCANIC ASH;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0037428103     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-9268(02)00145-6     Document Type: Article

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