Time, space, and composition relations among northern Nevada intrusive rocks and their metallogenic implications

Geosphere

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 381-405

  Du Bray, Edward A ^a  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Geochemistry; Igneous petrology; Intrusions; Mineral deposits

Indexed keywords

BACKARC BASIN; CARLIN-TYPE DEPOSIT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRETACEOUS; EPITHERMAL DEPOSIT; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GOLD; GRANODIORITE; HOST ROCK; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; JURASSIC; MAFIC ROCK; MAGMA; MAGMA ASSIMILATION; MAGMATISM; METALLOGENESIS; MIOCENE; PORPHYRY; REDOX CONDITIONS; RIFTING; SILVER; SKARN; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

NEVADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 45149130359     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00109.1     Document Type: Article

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