Petrology and U-Pb geochronology of footwall porphyritic rhyolites from the wolverine volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit, Yukon, Canada: Implications for the genesis of massive sulfide deposits in continental margin environments

Economic Geology

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-33

  Piercey, Stephen J ^a   Peter, Jan M ^b   Mortensen, James K ^c   Paradis, Suzanne ^d   Murphy, Donald C ^e   Tucker, Terry L ^f,g  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

^e Yukon Geological Survey   (Canada)

^f Expatriate Resources Ltd   (Canada)

^g StrataGold Corporation   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FELDSPAR; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MINERALOGY; PETROLOGY; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY; SULFIDE MINERALS;

BASALTIC UPWELLING; CRUST-MANTLE MIXING; CRUSTAL MELTING; PORPHYRITIC RHYOLITES; RHYOLITIC MAGMATISM;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEVONIAN; DISSOLUTION; EMPLACEMENT; FELDSPAR; FOOTWALL; HYDROTHERMAL CIRCULATION; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; MAGMATISM; MASSIVE SULFIDE; MELTING; MINERALIZATION; MISSISSIPPIAN; PETROLOGY; PORPHYRY; PROTEROZOIC; QUARTZ; RHYOLITE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; VOLCANOGENIC DEPOSIT;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; SELWYN BASIN; YUKON TERRITORY;

CALLUNA VULGARIS; GULO GULO;

EID: 44849094517     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.103.1.5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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