Deciphering fluid sources of hydrothermal systems: A combined Sr- and S-isotope study on barite (Schwarzwald, SW Germany)

Chemical Geology

Volumn 286, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 1-20

  Staude, Sebastian ^a   Göb, Susanne ^a   Pfaff, Katharina ^a   Ströbele, Florian ^a   Premo, Wayne R ^b   Markl, Gregor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

34S; 87Sr 86Sr; Barite; Fluid mixing; Hydrothermal; Schwarzwald; Wiesloch

Indexed keywords

87SR/86SR; FLUID-MIXING; HYDROTHERMAL; SCHWARZWALD; WIESLOCH;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BARITE; BUILDINGS; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; DEPOSITS; FLUIDS; ISOTOPES; LEACHING; MINERALOGY; MIXING; ORE DEPOSIT GEOLOGY; ORE DEPOSITS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SULFUR;

STRONTIUM;

BARITE; EVAPORITE; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; MINERALIZATION; MIXING RATIO; ORE DEPOSIT; PERMIAN; SEDIMENT; SOURCE ROCK; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; SULFUR ISOTOPE; TRIASSIC;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; BLACK FOREST; GERMANY;

EID: 79958014471     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.04.009     Document Type: Article

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