The nebo-nabel Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide deposit (West Musgrave, Australia): Pt. 1. U/Pb zircon ages, whole-rock and mineral chemistry, and O-Sr-Nd isotope compositions of the intrusion, with constraints on petrogenesis

Economic Geology

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 527-556

  Seat, Zoran ^a   Mary Gee, M A ^a   Grguric, Benjamin A ^a,b   Beresford, S W ^a,b   Grassineau, Nathalie V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b BHP BILLITON   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CHEMICAL TREND; CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; CRYSTAL FRACTIONATION; GABBRONORITES; IN-SITU; ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS; ISOTOPIC DATA; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCES; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC UNITS; MARGINAL UNITS; MINERAL CHEMISTRY; PETROGENESIS; SULFIDE DEPOSIT; TUBE-LIKE; ZIRCON AGE;

DEPOSITS; IGNEOUS ROCKS; ISOTOPES; NIOBIUM; PLATINUM; STRATIGRAPHY; STRONTIUM; SULFUR DEPOSITS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

SILICATE MINERALS;

COPPER; COUNTRY ROCK; CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; EMPLACEMENT; FACIES; GABBRO; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; LITHOSPHERE; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAGMA ASSIMILATION; MINERAL DEPOSIT; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; NICKEL; ORTHOGNEISS; PETROGENESIS; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT; SULFIDE GROUP; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

AUSTRALIA; MUSGRAVE RANGES;

NEBO;

EID: 79958119798     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/econgeo.106.4.527     Document Type: Article

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