Postcollisional age of the Kumtor gold deposit and timing of hercynian events in the Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan

Economic Geology

Volumn 99, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1771-1780

  Mao, Jingwen ^a,b   Konopelko, Dmitry ^c,d   Seltmann, Reimar ^d   Lehmann, Bernd ^e   Chen, Wen ^f   Wang, Yitian ^b   Eklund, Olav ^g   Usubaliev, Toorat ^h  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^c ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^e CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^h Kumtor Operating Company   (Kyrgyzstan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANITE MAGMATISM; KUMTOR GOLD DEPOSITS; MINERALIZATIONS; POSTCOLLISIONAL AGE;

DATA ACQUISITION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GOLD DEPOSITS; GRANITE; QUARTZ; SHEAR STRESS;

GEOLOGY;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; GOLD; ORE DEPOSIT;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; KYRGYZSTAN; TIEN SHAN; WEST ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 16444369026     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.99.8.1771     Document Type: Article

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