Siderophile and chalcophile metal variations in Tertiary picrites and basalts from West Greenland with implications for the sulphide saturation history of continental flood basalt magmas

Mineralium Deposita

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 319-336

  Keays, Reid R ^a,b   Lightfoot, Peter C ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Inco Exploration ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Flood basalts; Greenland; Ni Cu PGE mineralisation; Sulphur saturation

Indexed keywords

COPPER; FLOOD BASALT; LAVA; MINERALIZATION; NICKEL; PICRITE; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT; SIDEROPHILE ELEMENT; SULFIDE; TERTIARY;

ARCTIC; DISKO ISLAND; GREENLAND; NUUSSUAQ; WEST GREENLAND;

EID: 33947261158     PISSN: 00264598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00126-006-0112-4     Document Type: Article

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