Fracture analysis of a volcanogenic massive sulfide-related hydrothermal cracking zone, upper Bell River Complex, Matagami, Quebec: Application of permeability tensor theory

Economic Geology

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 667-690

  Ioannou, S E ^a,b   Spooner, E T C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Haywood Securities Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE MECHANICS; PETROLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

FRACTURE ANALYSIS; HYDROTHERMAL CRACKING ZONE; PERMEABILITY TENSOR THEORY; VOLCANOGENIC MASSIVE SULFIDE;

ORE DEPOSIT GEOLOGY;

GREENSTONE BELT; HEAT SOURCE; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; MASSIVE SULFIDE; MINERALIZATION; MINING; PERMEABILITY; VOLCANOGENIC DEPOSIT;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 37749028059     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.102.4.667     Document Type: Article

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