Veins and hydrothermal fluid flow in the Mt. Whaleback Iron Ore District, eastern Hamersley Province, Western Australia

Precambrian Research

Volumn 128, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 441-474

  Brown, Matthew C ^a   Oliver, Nicholas H S ^a   Dickens, Gerald R ^a,b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Banded iron formation; Fluid inclusions; Hematite; Iron ore; Paleoproterozoic deformation; Quartz veining

Indexed keywords

FERRIC OXIDE; IRON; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BANDED IRON FORMATION; CAPRICORN OROGENY; METALLOGENESIS; ORE-FORMING FLUID; PROTEROZOIC; VEIN (GEOLOGY);

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUSTRALIA; DENSITY; FLUID FLOW; PRESSURE; PROTEROZOIC; ROCK; SALINITY; SCALE UP; TEMPERATURE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; HAMERSLEY BASIN; MOUNT WHALEBACK; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 1242318680     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2003.09.013     Document Type: Article

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