Halogen variations in the Paleoproterozoic layered mafic-ultramafic intrusions of East Kimberley, Western Australia: Implications for platinum group element mineralization

Economic Geology

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1015-1026

  Boudreau, Alan E ^a   Hoatson, Dean M ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTRUSIONS; PYROXENE; VOLATILITY;

COPPER; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEGASSING; DEPOSITS; HALOGEN COMPOUNDS; STRATIGRAPHY;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

GEOCHEMISTRY; HALOGEN; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT; PROTEROZOIC; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; KIMBERLEY BASIN; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 5644258590     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.99.5.1015     Document Type: Article

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