Jurassic U-Pb and Re-Os ages for the newly discovered xietongmen Cu-Au porphyry district, tibet, PRC: Implications for metallogenic epochs in the Southern gangdese belt

Economic Geology

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 127-136

  Tafti, Reza ^a   Mortensen, James K ^a   Lang, James R ^b   Rebagliati, Mark ^b   Oliver, James L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b HUNTER DICKINSON INC   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARC MAGMATISM; JURASSIC; MAGMATIC ARCS; MIDDLE JURASSIC; MIOCENE; SOUTHERN TIBET; TECTONIC HISTORY;

COPPER DEPOSITS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LEAD; MINERALS; MOLYBDENUM; MOLYBDENUM DEPOSITS; OSMIUM;

CAVITY RESONATORS;

CONTINENTAL ARC; COPPER; EOCENE; JURASSIC; MAGMATISM; METALLOGENESIS; MIOCENE; MOLYBDENUM; PORPHYRY; RHENIUM-OSMIUM DATING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; XAITONGMOIN; XIGAZE; XIZANG;

EID: 65349180223     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.104.1.127     Document Type: Article

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