The Himalayan Yulong porphyry copper belt: Product of large-scale strike-slip faulting in eastern Tibet

Economic Geology

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 125-145

  Hou, Zengqian ^a   Ma, Hongwen ^b   Khin, Zaw ^c   Zhang, Yuquan ^d   Wang, Mingjie ^e   Wang, Zeng ^e   Pan, Guitang ^e   Tang, Renli ^f  

^a INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^e CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^f Xizang Bureau of Geol/Mineral Rsrc   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PORPHYRITIC MAGMAS;

GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; ORE DEPOSIT GEOLOGY; PETROLOGY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

COPPER DEPOSITS;

COPPER; ORE DEPOSIT; OROGENIC BELT; PORPHYRY; SOURCE ROCK; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; TERRANE;

CHINA;

EID: 0141566321     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.98.1.125     Document Type: Article

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