Synchronous deposition of massive sulphide deposits in the Iberian Pyrite Belt: New data from Las Herrerías and La Torerera ore-bodies

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 340, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 829-839

  Sáez, Reinaldo ^a   Moreno, Carmen ^a   González, Felipe ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Black shales; Devonian; Iberian Pyrite Belt; La Torerera Mine; Las Herrer as Mine; Palynology; Spain

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEPOSITION; DEVONIAN; MASSIVE SULFIDE; MINERAL EXPLORATION; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT; PALYNOLOGY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; IBERIAN PYRITE BELT; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

RETISPORA; VERRUCOSISPORITES;

EID: 57049162444     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2008.08.002     Document Type: Article

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