Petrochemistry of volcanic rocks in the Hishikari mining area of southern Japan, with implications for the relative contribution of lower crust and mantle-derived basalt

Resource Geology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 239-259

  Hosono, Takahiro ^a   Nakano, Takanori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Assimilation; Epithermal gold deposit; Fractional crystallization; Hishikari mine; Magma mixing; REE; Trace elements; Volcanic rocks

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; GOLD; MINERALIZATION; PETROLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SOURCE ROCK; VOLCANIC ROCK;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HISHIKARI MINE; JAPAN; KAGOSHIMA [KYUSHU]; KYUSHU;

EID: 1842505021     PISSN: 13441698     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-3928.2003.tb00174.x     Document Type: Article

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