Structural setting and synplutonic fault kinematics of a cordilleran Cu-Au-Mo porphyry mineralization system, Bingham Mining District, Utah

Economic Geology

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 743-761

  Kloppenburg, Armelle ^a   Grocott, John ^a   Hutchinson, David ^a,b  

^a Osbourne House   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION STRUCTURE; EXTENSIONAL COLLAPSE; EXTENSIONAL FAULTS; FAULT KINEMATICS; FAULT SET; GRANITIC ROCKS; INTEGRATED PATTERN; KINEMATIC FAULTS; LOW ASPECT RATIO; MINERALIZING FLUIDS; MINING DISTRICT; RELAY RAMPS; REVERSE MODELING; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; STRUCTURAL SETTING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE; TRANSFER FAULTS;

ASPECT RATIO; COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; DEFORMATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; KINEMATICS; MINERALOGY; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; QUARTZ; SEDIMENTATION; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CORDILLERA; EOCENE; FAULT PROPAGATION; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; KINEMATICS; MINERALIZATION; MONZONITE; PORPHYRY; SKARN; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

BINGHAM; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 77958583944     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.105.4.743     Document Type: Article

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