Earth's copper resources estimated from tectonic diffusion of porphyry copper deposits

Geology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 255-258

  Kesler, Stephen E ^a   Wilkinson, Bruce H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational model; Copper; Mineral deposit; Ore deposit; Resources; Tectonic

Indexed keywords

PORPHYRY COPPER DEPOSITS; TIME-SPACE MODEL;

COPPER DEPOSITS; GEOCHEMISTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MINERALOGY;

TECTONICS;

COPPER; EROSION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; MINERAL DEPOSIT; MINERAL RESOURCE; ORE DEPOSIT; PHANEROZOIC; PORPHYRY; TECTONICS; UPLIFT;

EID: 44449154733     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G24317A.1     Document Type: Article

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