The Tanami deep seismic reflection experiment: An insight into gold mineralization and Paleoproterozoic collision in the North Australian Craton

Tectonophysics

Volumn 472, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 169-182

  Goleby, Bruce R ^a   Huston, David L ^a   Lyons, Patrick ^a   Vandenberg, Leon ^b   Bagas, Leon ^c   Davies, Brett M ^d   Jones, Leonie E A ^a   Gebre Mariam, Musie ^d   Johnson, Wade ^d   Smith, Tim ^e   English, Luc ^e  

^a GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Northern Territory Geological Survey   (Australia)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d Newmont Mining Services Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^e Tanami Gold NL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aileron; Arunta; Crustal scale faults; Palaeoproterozoic collision; Seismic reflection; Tanami

Indexed keywords

AILERON; ARUNTA; CRUSTAL-SCALE FAULTS; PALAEOPROTEROZOIC COLLISION; SEISMIC REFLECTION; TANAMI;

DEPOSITS; GOLD; MINERALS; MINING; ORE DEPOSIT GEOLOGY; REFLECTION; RESEARCH; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STACKING FAULTS;

GOLD DEPOSITS;

COLLISION ZONE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GOLD; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT; PROTEROZOIC; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SHEAR ZONE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NORTH AUSTRALIAN CRATON;

EID: 67349212090     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.05.031     Document Type: Article

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