The evolution of Tungsten sources in crustal mineralization from Archean to tertiary inferred from lead isotopes

Economic Geology

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1039-1045

  Chiaradia, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL MINERALIZATION;

COMPOSITION; DATA REDUCTION; ISOTOPES; LEAD; ROCKS;

HYDROGEOLOGY;

ARCHEAN; CRUST; LEAD ISOTOPE; MINERALIZATION; PHANEROZOIC; TUNGSTEN;

EID: 0141860825     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.98.5.1039     Document Type: Article

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