Platinum group element geochemistry of mineralized and nonmineralized komatiites and basalts

Economic Geology

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 795-823

  Fiorentini, Marco L ^a   Barnes, Stephen J ^b   Lesher, C Michael ^c   Heggie, Geoffrey J ^a   Keays, Reid R ^c,d   Burnham, O Marcus ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e Geoscience Laboratories   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX PATTERN; DATA SETS; DYNAMIC PROCESS; FALSE NEGATIVES; HIGH-PRECISION; KOMATIITE; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCES; LIQUIDUS PHASIS; LITERATURE DATA; MAGMATIC PROCESS; MAGMATIC SULFIDE ORES; MAGMATIC SYSTEMS; METAMORPHIC PROCESS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; ORE-FORMING; PARTIAL MELTING; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENTS; POWERFUL INDICATORS; R FACTOR; SEGREGATION PROCESS; SENSITIVE INDICATOR; SILICATE MAGMA; STRONG CORRELATION; SULFIDE MELT; SULFIDE MINERALIZATION; THOMPSON;

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; GEOCHEMISTRY; IRIDIUM; OLIVINE; ORES; OSMIUM; PLATINUM; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BASALT;

BASALT; CRYSTALLIZATION; DATA SET; ECONOMIC GEOLOGY; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; KOMATIITE; ORE-FORMING FLUID; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT;

EID: 77958572904     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.105.4.795     Document Type: Article

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