Upper temperature limits of orogenic gold deposit formation: Constraints from the granulite-hosted griffins find deposit, yilgarn craton

Economic Geology

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 669-685

  Tomkins, Andrew G ^a   Grundy, Catherine ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MODEL; FLUID INFLUX; GRANULITE FACIES; GREENSCHIST; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROTHERMAL FLUIDS; HYDROUS PHASIS; MESOTHERMAL; METAMORPHIC REACTIONS; MINERALIZING FLUIDS; OROGENIC GOLD DEPOSITS; PARTIAL MELTING; POLYMETALLIC; TEMPERATURE LIMITS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

CALCITE; CARBONATE MINERALS; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DEPOSITS; FLUIDS; GOLD; MELTING; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; MICA; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; OXIDE MINERALS; QUARTZ; SILICATE MINERALS; SOLID STATE REACTIONS; TEXTURES; TIME MEASUREMENT;

GOLD DEPOSITS;

BIOTITE; CALCITE; CORDIERITE; CRATON; DEPOSITION; GNEISS; GOLD; GRANULITE FACIES; GREENSCHIST FACIES; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; MICROCLINE; MINERALIZATION; OROGENY; PARTIAL MELTING; PETROGENESIS; PROGRADATION; QUARTZ; RETROGRADE METAMORPHISM; SILICATE; ULTRAHIGH TEMPERATURE METAMORPHISM;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; YILGARN BLOCK;

EID: 70349634008     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.104.5.669     Document Type: Article

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