The Cretaceous iron belt of northern Chile: Role of oceanic plates, a superplume event, and a major shear zone

Mineralium Deposita

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 640-646

  Oyarzun, Roberto ^a   Oyarzún, Jorge ^b   Ménard, Jean Jacques ^c   Lillo, Javier ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOLOGÍA   (Chile)

^c Institut Pédagogique National   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chile; Cretaceous; Iron belt; Shear zone; Superplume

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; IRON ORE; MANTLE PLUME; METALLOGENESIS; ORE DEPOSIT; PLATE TECTONICS; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING;

CHILE;

EID: 0141724484     PISSN: 00264598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00126-003-0359-y     Document Type: Article

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