Spectroscopic mapping of the white horse alunite deposit, Marysvale volcanic field, Utah: Evidence of a magmatic component

Economic Geology

Volumn 101, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1377-1395

  Rockwell, Barnaby W ^a   Cunningham, Charles G ^b   Breit, George N ^a   Rye, Robert O ^a  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FELDSPAR; GYPSUM; INFRARED SPECTROMETERS; KAOLINITE; MAPPING; MINERALOGY; PYRITES; ROCKS; SULFATE MINERALS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

AIRBORNE VISIBLE/INFRARED IMAGING SPECTROMETER (AVIRIS); ALUNITE; ASH-FLOW TUFF;

MINERAL RESOURCES;

ALUNITE; AVIRIS; FRACTURE ZONE; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; HYDROTHERMAL PLUME; MIOCENE; ORE DEPOSIT; OXIDATION; PYRITE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 34249670264     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.101.7.1377     Document Type: Article

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