Refinement for footwall red-bed diagenesis in the sediment-hosted stratiform copper deposits model

Economic Geology

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 765-771

  Brown, Alex C ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COARSE-GRAINED CLASTIC RIFT SEDIMENTS; COPPER DEPOSITION; COPPER IRON-OXIDE ALTERATIONS; DIAGENETIC REDDENING; LOW-TEMPERATURE CHLORIDE-RICH BRINE; RIFT-FILLING FOOTWALL RED BEDS; SEDIMENT-HOSTED STRATIFORM;

BRINES; COPPER DEPOSITS; INFILTRATION; IRON OXIDES; LEACHING; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; PH; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

COPPER; DEPOSITION; DIAGENESIS; ORE DEPOSIT; RED BED;

EID: 31644450874     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.100.4.765     Document Type: Article

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