Tracking the Archean-Proterozoic suture zone in the northeastern Great Basin, Nevada and Utah

Geosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 315-328

  Rodriguez, Brian D ^a   Williams, Jackie M ^a  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Archean; Gold; Proterozoic; Resistivity; Suture zone

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; GOLD; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; MINERAL EXPLORATION; ORE DEPOSIT; PROTEROZOIC; SUTURE ZONE;

BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE; GREAT BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 42049112063     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00120.1     Document Type: Article

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