Geochemistry and jasper beds from the Ordovician Løkken ophiolite, Norway: Origin of proximal and distal siliceous exhalites

Economic Geology

Volumn 100, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1511-1527

  Grenne, Tor ^a   Slack, John F ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JASPER BEDS; MINERALIZATION; SILICEOUS EXHALITE; VOLCANOGENIC MASSIVE SULFIDE (VMS) DEPOSITS;

DEPOSITION; FLOCCULATION; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; MATERIALS BALANCE; OXIDATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SULFIDE MINERALS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

CHERT; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; OPHIOLITE; ORDOVICIAN; SILICEOUS DEPOSIT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 33745944730     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.100.8.1511     Document Type: Article

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