Structural and stratigraphic controls on carbonate-hosted base metal mineralization in the mesoproterozoic Borden basin (Nanisivik district), Nunavut

Economic Geology

Volumn 106, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1197-1223

  Turner, Elizabeth C ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASE METALS; DIKE SYSTEM; DISTINCTIVE FEATURES; DISTRIBUTION OF BASE METALS; DOLOSTONES; FIELD MAPPING; GEOLOGIC SETTINGS; LITHOFACIES; MINOR STRUCTURE; SPATIAL CONTROL; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; SULFIDE CONCENTRATION; SYNSEDIMENTARY;

FRACTURE; LEVEES; MINERALOGY; ORE DEPOSITS; SHALE; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BRITTLE MEDIUM; CARBONATE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEPOSITION; DISPLACEMENT; DOLOSTONE; FAULT; FRACTURE; LITHOFACIES; METAL; MINERALIZATION; ORE BODY; PROTEROZOIC; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; SULFIDE;

CANADA; NUNAVUT;

EID: 80054695660     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/econgeo.106.7.1197     Document Type: Article

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