Geochemistry and evolution of mississippi valley-type mineralizing brines from the Tri-State and Northern Arkansas districts determined by LA-ICP-MS microanalysis of fluid inclusions

Economic Geology

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1411-1435

  Stoffell, B ^a   Appold, M S ^b   Wilkinson, J J ^a,c   Mcclean, N A ^d   Jeffries, T E ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTIONS; BASINAL BRINE MIGRATIONS; CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; CHEMICAL EVOLUTIONS; COMPOSITIONAL VARIATIONS; DOLOMITIZATION; FLOW SYSTEMS; FLUID EVOLUTIONS; FLUID INCLUSIONS; FORELAND BASINS; HOST ROCKS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA- MASS SPECTROMETRIES; INITIAL STAGES; LA-ICP-MS; METAL CONCENTRATIONS; METAL CONTENTS; MISSISSIPPI; MULTI COMPONENTS; ORE FLUIDS; PERMIAN; SULFIDE MINERALIZATIONS;

BRINES; DISSOLUTION; GEOCHEMISTRY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LANDFORMS; LASER ABLATION; MASS SPECTROMETERS; METAL RECOVERY; METALS; MICROANALYSIS; MINERALOGY; ORES; OXIDE MINERALS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); QUARTZ; SEAWATER; STRATIGRAPHY; SULFIDE MINERALS; SULFUR; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; ZINC SULFIDE;

FLUIDS;

BASIN EVOLUTION; BRINE; CHEMICAL PROPERTY; DISSOLUTION; DOLOMITE; DOLOMITIZATION; FLUID INCLUSION; FORELAND BASIN; GANGUE; GEOCHEMISTRY; HALOGEN; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; MINERALIZATION; NEUTRALIZATION; OROGENY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; QUARTZ; SPHALERITE;

ARKANSAS; MISSISSIPPI VALLEY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 59849086954     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.103.7.1411     Document Type: Article

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