SHRIMP U-Pb ages of Xenotime and monazite from the Spar Lake red bed-associated Cu-Ag deposit, western Montana: Implications for ore genesis

Economic Geology

Volumn 107, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1251-1274

  Aleinikoff, John N ^a   Hayes, Timothy S ^b   Evans, Karl V ^a   Mazdab, Frank K ^c   Pillers, Renee M ^d   Fanning, C Mark ^d  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETRITAL ZIRCON; DIFFERENT ORIGINS; EPITAXIAL OVERGROWTH; GENETIC RELATIONSHIPS; HEAVY RARE EARTHS; HYDROTHERMAL FLUIDS; IN-SITU; ISOLATED GRAINS; LAKE DEPOSITS; MONTANA; ORE GENESIS; THIN SECTION; U-PB AGES; WEIGHTED AVERAGES; XENOTIME;

CALCITE; COPPER COMPOUNDS; COPPER SILVER DEPOSITS; EUROPIUM; GADOLINIUM; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LAKES; LEAD; MINERALOGY; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHELLFISH; SILVER;

DEPOSITS;

DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MINERALIZATION; MONAZITE; RED BED; SHRIMP DATING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; XENOTIME; COPPER; DIAGENESIS; GOLD; ORE DEPOSIT;

MONTANA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867112194     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/econgeo.107.6.1251     Document Type: Article

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