Significance of oscillatory and bell-shaped growth zoning in hydrothermal garnet: Evidence from the Navachab gold deposit, Namibia

Chemical Geology

Volumn 262, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 262-276

  Dziggel, Annika ^a   Wulff, Katharina ^a   Kolb, Jochen ^b   Meyer, F Michael ^a   Lahaye, Y ^c  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^c Institute of Mineralogy   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calcsilicate rock; Fluid dynamics; Fluid rock interaction; Garnet chemistry; Low P metamorphism; Strain partitioning

Indexed keywords

CALC SILICATE ROCK; ENRICHMENT; FLUID DYNAMICS; GARNET; GEOCHEMISTRY; GOLD; GROWTH RATE; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; LOW GRADE METAMORPHISM; MINERALIZATION; P-T CONDITIONS; PERMEABILITY; STRAIN PARTITIONING; WATER-ROCK INTERACTION; ZONING;

AFRICA; NAMIBIA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 67349256487     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2009.01.027     Document Type: Article

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