Compositional variations of olivine and sulfur isotopes in the Noril'sk and Talnakh intrusions, Siberia: Implications for ore-forming processes in dynamic magma conduits

Economic Geology

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 69-86

  Li, Chusi ^a   Ripley, Edward M ^a   Naldrett, Anthony J ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORE-BEARING INTRUSIONS;

CONTAMINATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ROCK MECHANICS; SILICATES;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MAGMA CHEMISTRY; METALLOGENESIS; MINERALIZATION; OLIVINE; ORE DEPOSIT; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT; SOURCE ROCK; SULFIDE;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0041899544     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.98.1.69     Document Type: Article

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