Study of trace element zonation in vent chimneys from the silurian yaman-kasy volcanic-hosted massive sulfide deposit (Southern Urals, Russia) using laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICPMS)

Economic Geology

Volumn 104, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1111-1141

  Maslennikov, V V ^a   Maslennikova, S P ^a   Large, R R ^b   Danyushevsky, L V ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE VALUES; BLACK SMOKERS; COARSE-GRAINED; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROTHERMAL FLUIDS; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; MEDIUM TEMPERATURE; MICROINCLUSIONS; RECRYSTALLIZATIONS; SPHALERITE STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TRACE ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS; TRACE ELEMENT DISTRIBUTION; VENT CHIMNEYS; VOLCANIC-HOSTED MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSITS;

ABLATION; AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; ANTIMONY; BARIUM; BISMUTH; CHIMNEYS; COPPER COMPOUNDS; DEPOSITS; FLUIDS; GOLD; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LEAD; MANGANESE; MASS SPECTROMETERS; QUARTZ; SEAWATER; SILVER; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; TIN; VOLCANOES; ZINC SULFIDE;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

BLACK SMOKER; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; MASSIVE SULFIDE; OXYGENATION; SEAWATER; SILURIAN; SULFIDE; TRACE ELEMENT;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION; URALS;

EID: 77957305961     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.104.8.1111     Document Type: Article

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