Transitional adakite-like to calc-alkaline magmas in a continental extensional setting at La Paz Au-Cu skarn deposits, Mesa Central, Mexico: Metallogenic implications

Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geologicas

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 39-58

  Pinto Linares, Porfirio J ^a   Levresse, Gilles ^b   Tritlla, Jordi ^b   Valencia, Víctor A ^c   Torres Aguilera, José M ^d   González, Manuel ^e   Estrada, David ^e  

^a INSTITUTO POTOSINO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y TECNOLÓGICA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c The University of Arizona   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE SAN LUIS POTOSÍ   (Mexico)

^e Negociación Minera Santa María de la Paz y Anexas S A de C V   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Adakite like; Au Cu skarn; Geochemistry; Geochronology; La Paz; Mesa Central; Mexico; U Pb

Indexed keywords

EID: 44849096106     PISSN: 10268774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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