Subseafloor origin for Broken Hill Pb-Zn-Ag mineralization, New South Wales, Australia

Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 589-592

  Parr, Joanna M ^a   Stevens, Brian P J ^b   Carr, Graham R ^a   Page, Rodney W ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Geological Survey of New South Wales   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Banded iron formations; Base metals; Broken Hill; Geochronology; Paleoproterozoic; Pb Pb; U Pb

Indexed keywords

MAGNETITE DISSEMINATIONS; STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCE;

FLUIDS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPES; MINERALOGY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; ZIRCON;

LEAD;

BANDED IRON FORMATION; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; LEAD; ORE DEPOSIT; PROTEROZOIC; SILVER; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZINC;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; BROKEN HILL; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 3543064733     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G20358.1     Document Type: Article

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