Salt as a fluid driver, and basement as a metal source, for stratiform sediment-hosted copper deposits

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1107-1110

  Koziy, Lyudmyla ^a   Bull, Stuart ^a   Large, Ross ^a   Selley, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASTICS; COPPERBELT; CRYSTALLINE BASEMENT; HYDROTHERMAL PLUME; LOW PERMEABILITY; METAL SOURCES; NUMERICAL MODELING;

BUILDINGS; COPPER; DEPOSITS; ORE DEPOSIT GEOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

COPPER DEPOSITS;

COPPER; MODELING; RED BED; SALT; SOURCE ROCK; STRATIFORM DEPOSIT;

COPPERBELT; ZAMBIA;

EID: 72149121122     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30380A.1     Document Type: Article

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