Discrimination of metamorphic and metasomatic processes at the Broken Hill Pb-Zn-Ag deposit, Australia: Earth element signatures of garnet-rich rocks

Economic Geology

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 471-494

  Spry, Paul G ^a   Heimann, Adriana ^a,b   Messerly, Joshua D ^c   Houk, R S ^c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; GARNETS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LASER ABLATION; LEAD ZINC DEPOSITS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; QUARTZ; SILVER DEPOSITS;

GARNET-RICH ROCKS; LEAD-ZINE-SILVER DEPOSIT; MANGANIFEROUS SEDIMENTS; QUARTZ GARNETITE;

MINERALOGY;

GARNET; GRANULITE FACIES; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; LASER METHOD; LEAD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METAMORPHISM; ORE BODY; PROTEROZOIC; QUARTZ; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SILVER; ZINC;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; BROKEN HILL; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 35348928704     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.102.3.471     Document Type: Article

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