Phase separation, fluid mixing, and origin of the greisens and potassic episyenite associated with the Água Boa pluton, Pitinga tin province, Amazonian Craton, Brazil

Journal of South American Earth Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 161-183

  Borges, Régis Munhoz Krás ^a   Villas, Raimundo Netuno Nobre ^a   Fuzikawa, Kazuo ^b   Dall'Agnol, Roberto ^a   Pimenta, Marcos Assunção ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^b CENTRO DE DESENVOLVIMENTO DA TECNOLOGIA NUCLEAR   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Fluid inclusions; Greisens; Pitinga; Potassic episyenite; Tin mineralization

Indexed keywords

DILUTION; FLUID INCLUSION; HOST ROCK; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; IMMISCIBILITY; LOW TEMPERATURE; MINERALIZATION; MIXING; PETROGRAPHY;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 62049085076     PISSN: 08959811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsames.2008.11.006     Document Type: Article

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