Contrasting styles of mineralization in the Chinese Altai and East Junggar, NW China: Implications for the accretionary history of the southern Altaids

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 168, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1311-1321

  Wan, Bo ^a   Xiao, Wenjiao ^a   Zhang, Lianchang ^a   Windley, Brian F ^b   Han, Chunming ^a   Quinn, Cameron D ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c Geological Survey of New South Wales   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METALLOGENIC BELT; NW CHINA; PALAEOZOIC; PERMIAN; PORPHYRY DEPOSITS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TIME-SPACE DISTRIBUTION; VOLCANOGENIC MASSIVE SULPHIDES;

COPPER; DEPOSITS; GOLD; LEAD; MINERALOGY; ORE DEPOSIT GEOLOGY; ZINC SULFIDE;

GOLD DEPOSITS;

ACCRETION; CARBONIFEROUS; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; EMPLACEMENT; GOLD; MASSIVE SULFIDE; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT; PERMIAN; PORPHYRY; SHEAR ZONE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ALTAI MOUNTAINS; CHINA; JUNGGAR BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 80054912000     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492011-021     Document Type: Article

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