Age and paleotectonic setting of volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits in the Guerrero terrane of central Mexico: Constraints from U-Pb Age and Pb isotope studies

Economic Geology

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 117-140

  Mortensen, James K ^a   Hall, B V ^b,c   Bissig, Thomas ^a,d   Friedman, Richard M ^a   Danielson, Thomas ^a   Oliver, James ^e   Rhys, David A ^f   Ross, Kika V ^f   Gabites, Janet E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b International Croesus Ventures Corporation   (Canada)

^c LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL NORTE   (Chile)

^e Oliver Geoscience International   (Canada)

^f Panterra Geoservices Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MINERALOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; SULFUR DEPOSITS; TECTONICS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS; OCEANIC CRUST; VOLCANOGENIC MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSITS;

SULFIDE MINERALS;

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CONTINENTAL ARC; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; GEOCHEMISTRY; HOST ROCK; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LEAD ISOTOPE; MASSIVE SULFIDE; MINERALIZATION; TECTONIC SETTING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; VOLCANOGENIC DEPOSIT;

ARGENTINA; BUENOS AIRES [ARGENTINA]; CENTRAL AMERICA; EL SALVADOR [CENTRAL AMERICA]; GUERRERO TERRANE; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; SAN NICOLAS; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 44849090915     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.103.1.117     Document Type: Conference Paper

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