A new fossil vent biota in the ballynoe barite deposit, silvermines, Ireland evidence for intracratonic sea-floor hydrothermal activity about 352 Ma

Economic Geology

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 649-656

  Boyce, Adrian J ^a   Little, Crispin T C ^b   Russell, Michael J ^a  

^a SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA-FLOOR DEPOSITION;

BARITE; CARBONATES; DEPOSITS; MINES;

GEOLOGY;

BASE METAL; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; MISSISSIPPI VALLEY-TYPE DEPOSIT; ORE DEPOSIT; SEAFLOOR; TOURNAISIAN; WORM CAST;

IRELAND;

EID: 0141632768     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.98.3.649     Document Type: Article

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