Zn-Pb mineralisation in the Silvermines district, Ireland: A product of burial diagenesis

Mineralium Deposita

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 87-102

  Reed, Christopher P ^a   Wallace, Malcolm W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbonate diagenesis; Epigenetic; Irish type; Mississippi Valley type; Sulphide mineralisation

Indexed keywords

BURIAL (GEOLOGY); DIAGENESIS; LEAD; MINERALIZATION; MISSISSIPPI VALLEY-TYPE DEPOSIT; ORE DEPOSIT; ZINC;

COUNTY TIPPERARY; EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; MUNSTER [IRELAND]; SILVERMINES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 1342332568     PISSN: 00264598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00126-003-0384-x     Document Type: Article

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