Pb-Sr isotopic evidence for contribution of deep crustal fluid to the Hishikari epithermal gold deposit, southwestern Japan

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 222, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 61-69

  Hosono, Takahiro ^a   Nakano, Takanori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crust; Deep crustal fluid; Epithermal gold deposit; Magmatic fluid; Pb Sr isotope

Indexed keywords

EPITHERMAL DEPOSIT; GOLD; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; METALLOGENESIS; ORE DEPOSIT; ORE-FORMING FLUID;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; KYUSHU;

EID: 2342639067     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.02.010     Document Type: Article

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