Trace and minor element variations and sulfur isotopes in crystalline and colloform ZnS: Incorporation mechanisms and implications for their genesis

Chemical Geology

Volumn 286, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 118-134

  Pfaff, Katharina ^a   Koenig, Alan ^b   Wenzel, Thomas ^a   Ridley, Ian ^a   Hildebrandt, Ludwig H ^c   Leach, David L ^b   Markl, Gregor ^a  

^a Institut für Geowissenschaften   (Germany)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Büro für Denkmalpflege und Umweltschutz   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colloform sphalerite; Hydrothermal; MVT; Schalenblende

Indexed keywords

COLLOFORM SPHALERITE; DIAGENETIC PROCESS; FLUID MIXING; FORMATION MECHANISM; GERMANY; HOST ROCKS; HYDROTHERMAL; INCORPORATION MECHANISM; KARST CAVITY; MINOR ELEMENTS; MVT; NEGATIVE VALUES; OVERSATURATION; POSITIVE VALUE; PRECIPITATION MECHANISM; SCHALENBLENDE; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIA; SULFUR ISOTOPE; TRACE ELEMENT CONTENT;

ANTIMONY; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; DEPOSITS; FLUIDS; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; LEAD; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SULFATE MINERALS; SULFUR; ZINC SULFIDE;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

CRYSTALLIZATION; FORMATION MECHANISM; HOST ROCK; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ORE DEPOSIT; SPHALERITE; SULFUR ISOTOPE; THERMODYNAMICS;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; BLACK FOREST; GERMANY;

EID: 79959784739     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.04.018     Document Type: Article

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