Recycling of orogenic arc crust triggers porphyry Cu mineralization in Kerman Cenozoic arc rocks, southeastern Iran

Mineralium Deposita

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 265-283

  Shafiei, Behnam ^a   Haschke, Michael ^b   Shahabpour, Jamshid ^c  

^a GOLESTAN UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^c SHAHID BAHONAR UNIVERSITY OF KERMAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Alpine Himalayan collision; Iran; Kerman; Metallogenesis; Porphyry copper

Indexed keywords

COPPER; CRUSTAL THICKENING; DIORITE; EOCENE; GRANODIORITE; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; MELTING; METALLOGENESIS; MINERALIZATION; MINERALOGY; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; ORE DEPOSIT; PORPHYRY; TRACE ELEMENT; UNDERPLATING;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAN; KERMAN [IRAN]; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 62649128420     PISSN: 00264598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00126-008-0216-0     Document Type: Article

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