Carbon isotopes and petrography of kerogens in ∼3.5-Ga hydrothermal silica dikes in the North Pole area, Western Australia

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 573-589

  Ueno, Yuichiro ^a,c   Yoshioka, Hideyoshi ^b   Maruyama, Shigenori ^c   Isozaki, Yukio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CARBON ISOTOPE; DIKE; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; PETROGRAPHY; SILICA;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; PILBARA BLOCK; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0742322780     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(00)00462-9     Document Type: Article

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