Tracking redox controls and sources of sedimentary mineralization using copper and lead isotopes

Chemical Geology

Volumn 310-311, Issue , 2012, Pages 23-35

  Asael, Dan ^a,b   Matthews, Alan ^a   Bar Matthews, Miryam ^b   Harlavan, Yehudit ^b   Segal, Irina ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Copper deposits; Copper isotopes; Fluid speciation; Lead isotopes; Redox; Timna

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL SULPHATE REDUCTIONS; BIMODAL DISTRIBUTION; CAMBRIANS; COPPER MINERALIZATION; COPPER MINERALS; COPPER SULPHIDES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ISOTOPE SYSTEMS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC RATIOS; LEAD ISOTOPE; LOWER CRETACEOUS; MANGANESE ORE; REDOX; REDOX CONDITION; SALINITY VARIATIONS; SPECIATION MODELING; SYSTEM CONDITIONS; TIMNA;

COPPER DEPOSITS; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; LEAD; MANGANESE; MINERALOGY; ORES; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

COPPER;

CAMBRIAN; COPPER; CRETACEOUS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LEAD ISOTOPE; MANGANESE; ORE DEPOSIT; REDOX CONDITIONS; REMOBILIZATION; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; UNCONFORMITY;

ISRAEL; SOUTHERN DISTRICT; TIMNA VALLEY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84859902602     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.03.021     Document Type: Article

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