Relative timing of albitization and chlorine enrichment in biotite in proterozoic schists, Snake Creek anticline, Mount Isa Inlier, northeastern Australia

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 349-366

  Rubenach, Michael J ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Albitization; Andalusite; Australia; Biotite; Cl enrichment; Cloncurry area; Metasomatism

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE; DEFORMATION; MASS TRANSPORTATION; METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

ALBITITE DEVELOPMENT; ALBITIZATION; LOW-PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; METASOMATIC ROCKS;

MINERALOGY;

ALBITIZATION; BIOTITE; CHLORINE; METAMORPHISM; METASOMATISM; SCHIST;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; MOUNT ISA; QUEENSLAND; WORLD;

SERPENTES;

EID: 18944368620     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gscanmin.43.1.349     Document Type: Article

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