Fault-segment rupture, aftershock-zone fluid flow, and mineralization

Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 813-816

  Micklethwaite, Steven ^a   Cox, Stephen F ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aftershocks; Fault zones; Fluids; Genesis; Mineral deposits; Permeability; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

FAULT -SEGMENT RUPTURE; FAULT SYSTEMS; MINERALIZATION; PERMEABILITY;

FAILURE ANALYSIS; GOLD DEPOSITS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

FAULTING; FRACTURE FLOW; GOLD; LODE DEPOSIT; METALLOGENESIS; MINERALIZATION; RUPTURE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; KALGOORLIE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 4744338709     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G20559.1     Document Type: Article

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