Sulfur isotope evidence for thermochemical reduction of dissolved sulfate in Mississippi Valley-type zinc-lead mineralization, Bongara area, Northern Peru

Economic Geology

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 783-799

  Basuki, N I ^a   Taylor, B E ^b   Spooner, E T C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACKING (CHEMICAL); DISSOLUTION; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; LEAD; MINERALOGY; OPEN SYSTEMS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PYRITES; SEAWATER; SULFIDE MINERALS; SULFUR; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; ZINC; ZINC SULFIDE;

BACTERIAL SULFATE REDUCTIONS; CARBONATE ROCKS; CLOSED SYSTEMS; FLORIDA; FLUID INCLUSION MICROTHERMOMETRY; GEOLOGIC SETTINGS; IN-SITU; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATIONS; JURASSIC; LATE TRIASSIC; METAL PRECIPITATIONS; MISSISSIPPI; OBSERVED SAMPLES; ORGANOSULFUR COMPOUNDS; OROGENIC EVENTS; SULFATE REDUCTIONS; SULFUR ISOTOPES; SYMMETRIC DISTRIBUTIONS; TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; THERMAL CRACKINGS;

SULFATE MINERALS;

FLUID INCLUSION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; LEAD; MINERALIZATION; MISSISSIPPI VALLEY-TYPE DEPOSIT; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); REDUCTION; SULFATE; SULFUR ISOTOPE; THERMOCHEMISTRY; ZINC;

AMAZONAS [PERU]; BONGARA; PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PUCARA;

EID: 57749106279     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.103.4.783     Document Type: Article

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