Development of fluid conduits in the auriferous shear zones of the Hutti Gold Mine, India: Evidence for spatially and temporally heterogeneous fluid flow

Tectonophysics

Volumn 378, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 65-84

  Kolb, Jochen ^a   Rogers, Amanda ^a   Meyer, F Michael ^a   Vennemann, Torsten W ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Conduit; Fault valve; Fluid flow; Orogenic gold; Quartz veins; Shear zones

Indexed keywords

FLUID FLOW; GOLD; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; METAMORPHISM; MINERALIZATION; OROGENY; QUARTZ VEIN; SHEAR ZONE;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 1642463811     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2003.10.009     Document Type: Article

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