Kinematic history of the Boulder-Lefroy shear zone system and controls on associated gold mineralization, Yilgarn craton, Western Australia

Economic Geology

Volumn 100, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1407-1426

  Weinberg, Roberto F ^a,b   van der Borgh, P ^a   Bateman, R J ^c   Groves, David I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOULDER-LEFROY SHEAR ZONE SYSTEM; GOLD MINERALIZATION;

DEPOSITION; GOLD MINES; KINEMATICS; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR STRESS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

GEOLOGY;

FOLDING; GOLD MINE; GREENSTONE; MINERALIZATION; SHEAR ZONE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; YILGARN BLOCK;

EID: 33646449323     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.100.7.1407     Document Type: Article

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