Oxygen and carbon isotope studies on the skarn-type ores at the Tengumori copper deposit of the Kamaishi mine, Northeastern Japan

Resource Geology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 125-136

  Haruna, Makoto ^a,b   Ohmoto, Hiroshi ^a,c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Kamaishi mine; Oxygen and carbon isotopes; Skarn; Tengumori copper deposit

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CHALCOPYRITE; CLINOPYROXENE; COOLING; COPPER COMPOUND; CRETACEOUS; GARNET; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; MAGMA; MINERALIZATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PYRRHOTITE; SALINITY; SKARN;

HONSHU; IWATE; JAPAN; KAMAISHI; TOHOKU;

EID: 21344473162     PISSN: 13441698     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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