Magmatic and hydrothermal chronology of the Giant Río Blanco porphyry copper deposit, central Chile: Implications of an integrated U-Pb and 40Ar/ 39Ar database

Economic Geology

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 905-934

  Deckart, Katja ^a   Clark, Alan H ^b   Aguilar A , Celso ^c   Vargas R , Ricardo ^c   Bertens, Alfredo N ^c   Mortensen, James K ^d   Fanning, Mark ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c División Andina ^*  (Chile)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROTHERMAL BIOTITE; HYDROTHERMAL CHRONOLOGY; MAGMATIC BIOTITE; MAGMATIC CHRONOLOGY; MUSCOVITE; ORTHOCLASE;

COPPER DEPOSITS; FELDSPAR; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORE DEPOSITS; QUARTZ; ZIRCON;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

COPPER; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ORE DEPOSIT; PORPHYRY;

CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33344465899     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.100.5.905     Document Type: Article

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