Exploration using till geochemistry and heavy minerals in the ribbed moraine area of southern Finnish Lapland

Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 195-205

  Sarala, Pertti ^a   Peuraniemi, Vesa ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Drift prospecting; Finland; Geochemistry; Glacial morphology; Glacial sedimentology; Mineral exploration; Per pohja Schist Belt; Quaternary; Ribbed moraine; Till

Indexed keywords

COPPER COMPOUNDS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; MINERALOGY; MORPHOLOGY; PYRITES;

DRIFT PROSPECTING; FINLAND; GLACIAL MORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL SEDIMENTOLOGIES; QUATERNARY; RIBBED MORAINE; TILL;

MINERAL EXPLORATION;

BEDROCK; DEPOSITION; DRIFT (GLACIAL DEPOSIT); GEOCHEMISTRY; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIAL TRANSPORT; GOLD; HEAVY MINERAL; MINERAL EXPLORATION; MINERALIZATION; MORAINE; QUATERNARY; RILL; SOURCE ROCK;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; LAPLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 34547823514     PISSN: 14677873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1467-7873/07-126     Document Type: Article

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