Petrogenetic character and provenance of metabasalts in the aspiring and Torlesse Terranes, South Island, New Zealand: Implications for the gold endowment of the Otago Schist?

Chemical Geology

Volumn 260, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 301-315

  Bierlein, Frank P ^a,b   Craw, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Greenstone petrogenesis; Mantle plumes; Oceanic plateau; Ore forming processes; Orogenic gold; Otago Schist

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHON; FORMATION MECHANISM; GOLD; GREENSTONE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MANTLE PLUME; MESOZOIC; METABASALT; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; OROGENY; PETROGENESIS; PROVENANCE; SOURCE ROCK; TERRANE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 60749129143     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2009.01.016     Document Type: Article

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