Correlation of Olary and Broken Hill domains, Curnamona Province: Possible relationship to Mount Isa and other north Australian Pb-Zn-Ag-bearing successions

Economic Geology

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 663-676

  Page, Rodney W ^a,b   Conor, C H H ^c   Stevens, B P J ^d   Gibson, G M ^b   Preiss, W V ^c   Southgate, P N ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c Government of South Australia   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROKEN HILL; GEOLOGIC MAP; METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS; OREBODY; PALEOPROTEROZOIC;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; LEAD COMPOUNDS; LITHOLOGY; MAPS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; STRATIGRAPHY;

LANDFORMS;

LEAD; ORE DEPOSIT; PROTEROZOIC; SILVER; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; ZINC;

ADELAIDE FOLD BELT; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; BROKEN HILL; NEW SOUTH WALES; OLARY BLOCK; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 31644437406     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.100.4.663     Document Type: Article

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