Geochemistry of tertiary igneous rocks of northern luzon, philippines: Evidence for a back-arc setting for alkalic porphyry copper-gold deposits and a case for slab roll-back?

Economic Geology

Volumn 106, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1257-1277

  Hollings, Pete ^a   Wolfe, Rohan ^b   Cooke, David R ^c   Waters, Patrick J ^d  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Ivanhoe Australia   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d Anglo American Exploration (Philippines) Inc   (Philippines)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALI CONTENTS; ARC MAGMAS; ARC REVERSAL; BACK-ARC; DACITES; EARLY MIOCENE; GEOCHEMICAL DATA; HIGH FIELD STRENGTH ELEMENTS; LATE OLIGOCENE; MAGMATISMS; MIOCENE; NEW AGE; OLIGOCENE; PHILIPPINES; PORPHYRY DEPOSITS; ROLL BACK; SUPRASUBDUCTION ZONE;

COPPER DEPOSITS; DEPOSITS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GOLD DEPOSITS; LANDFORMS; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; ROCKS; TECTONICS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

ARCHIPELAGO; BACKARC BASIN; COPPER; EXTRUSION; GOLD; HIATUS; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; IGNEOUS ROCK; MAGMATISM; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT; RIFTING; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; TERTIARY; VOLCANIC ROCK;

LUZON; PHILIPPINES;

EID: 81855216351     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/econgeo.106.8.1257     Document Type: Article

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