Formation of sedimentary rock-hosted stratiform copper deposits through earth history

Economic Geology

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 627-639

  Hitzman, Murray W ^a   Selley, David ^b   Bull, Stuart ^b  

^a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE AGES; CENTRAL AFRICA; COPPER SULFIDES; EVAPORITES; GLACIAL PERIOD; GLOBAL TECTONICS; KEY FACTORS; LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTS; LARGE-SCALE PRODUCTION; LOW LATITUDES; MINERALIZATION PROCESS; NEOPROTEROZOIC; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; PAUCITY OF DATA; PERMIAN; RED BED; SIBERIA; SULFIDE PRECIPITATION; SUPERCONTINENTS; SYN-RIFT; TIME-PERIODS;

COPPER; DEPOSITS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; HYDROCARBONS; IGNEOUS ROCKS; MAGNESIUM; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SULFUR;

COPPER DEPOSITS;

COPPER; ECONOMIC GEOLOGY; EVAPORITE; GLACIATION; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; MARINE SEDIMENT; OIL WELL; PROTEROZOIC; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; TERTIARY;

AFRICA; EUROPE; SIBERIA;

EID: 78149426212     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.105.3.627     Document Type: Article

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