Hydrothermal alteration and K-Ar ages of Neogene-Quaternary magmatic-hydrothermal systems at Toyoha-Muine area in southwest Hokkaido, Japan

Resource Geology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 192-209

  Shimizu, Toru ^a   Aoki, Masahiro ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alteration; Hydrothermal; K Ar age; Magmatic; Muine; Toyoha

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ANDESITE; BASALT; BASE METAL; GRANODIORITE; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MAGMATISM; NEOGENE; ORE DEPOSIT; PLIOCENE; POTASSIUM-ARGON DATING; QUATERNARY;

HOKKAIDO; JAPAN; MUINE VOLCANO;

EID: 79953009666     PISSN: 13441698     EISSN: 17513928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-3928.2011.00158.x     Document Type: Review

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