Copper transport by high temperature, sulfur-rich magmatic vapor: Evidence from silicate melt and vapor inclusions in a basaltic andesite from the Villarrica volcano (Chile)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 282, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 115-121

  Zajacz, Zoltan ^a   Halter, Werner ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

copper; fluid inclusion; melt inclusion; ore deposit; sulfur; volatile

Indexed keywords

BASALTIC ANDESITES; CLINOPYROXENE; COPPER TRANSPORTS; FLUID INCLUSION; HIGH TEMPERATURES; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; MELT INCLUSION; PLAGIOCLASE CRYSTALS; SILICATE MELTS; VAPOR-PHASE; VOLATILE;

CHLORINE; COPPER; COPPER DEPOSITS; FELDSPAR; IGNEOUS ROCKS; MINERALOGY; OLIVINE; ORE DEPOSIT GEOLOGY; ORES; SILICATE MINERALS; SILVER; SULFUR; TRACE ELEMENTS; VAPORS; VOLCANOES;

INCLUSIONS;

ANDESITE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLINOPYROXENE; COPPER; FLUID INCLUSION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MELT INCLUSION; OLIVINE; ORE DEPOSIT; PLAGIOCLASE; SILICATE MELT; SILVER; SULFUR; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA; VILLARRICA;

EID: 67349184535     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.03.006     Document Type: Article

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