Fluid sources and hydrothermal architecture of the Sudbury Structure: Constraints from femtosecond LA-MC-ICP-MS Sr isotopic analysis of hydrothermal epidote and calcite

Chemical Geology

Volumn 278, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 131-150

  Campos Alvarez, N O ^a   Samson, I M ^a   Fryer, B J ^a   Ames, D E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Epidote and Calcite; Femtosecond LA MC ICP MS; Orthomagmatic fluids; Proterozoic seawater; Sr isotopes; Sudbury Structure

Indexed keywords

EPIDOTE AND CALCITE; FEMTOSECONDS; ORTHOMAGMATIC FLUIDS; PROTEROZOIC; SR ISOTOPES; SUDBURY STRUCTURE;

BUILDINGS; CALCITE; CARBONATE MINERALS; FLUIDS; ISOTOPES; LAMINATING; MASS SPECTROMETERS; SEAWATER; SILICATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY;

STRONTIUM;

CALCITE; EPIDOTE; HYDROTHERMAL CIRCULATION; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PROTEROZOIC; SEAWATER; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; SUDBURY IGNEOUS COMPLEX; SUDBURY STRUCTURE;

EID: 77958161737     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2010.09.006     Document Type: Article

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