100th Anniversary special paper: Secular changes in global tectonic processes and their influence on the temporal distribution of gold-bearing mineral deposits

Economic Geology

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 203-224

  Groves, David I ^a   Condie, Kent C ^b   Goldfarb, Richard J ^c   Hronsky, Jonathan M A ^d   Vielreicher, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^d BHP BILLITON   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRST-ORDER CHANGES; LITHOSPHERIC MANTEL; REDOX-SENSITIVE METALS;

BUOYANCY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION METHODS; EARTH (PLANET); GOLD; MINERAL RESOURCES; REDOX REACTIONS; TECTONICS;

GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS;

GEOLOGICAL TIME; GOLD; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 21344449737     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.100.2.203     Document Type: Review

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