Constraints on the timing of Co-Cu ± Au mineralization in the Blackbird district, Idaho, using SHRIMP U-Pb ages of monazite and xenotime plus zircon ages of related Mesoproterozoic orthogneisses and metasedimentary rocks

Economic Geology

Volumn 107, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1143-1175

  Aleinikoff, John N ^a   Lack, John F S ^b   Lund, Karen ^a   Evans, Karl V ^a   Fanning, C Mark ^c   Mazdab, Frank K ^d   Wooden, Joseph L ^e   Pillers, Renee M ^a  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d The University of Arizona   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DATA; BACKSCATTERED ELECTRONS; COMPLEX SEQUENCES; CRETACEOUS AGE; DETRITAL ZIRCON; GENETIC MODELS; GRANODIORITE; HOST ROCKS; IN-SITU; INITIAL DEPOSITIONS; LATE CRETACEOUS; MATRIX EFFECTS; METAMORPHIC EVENTS; METAMORPHIC PROCESS; METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS; NEOARCHEAN; NEW AGE; ORE FORMATION; ORTHOGNEISSES; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; PROTEROZOIC; SENSITIVE HIGH-RESOLUTION ION MICROPROBE; STRUCTURAL DOMAINS; THIN SECTION; TIME CONSTRAINTS; U-PB AGES; U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY; XENOTIME; ZIRCON AGE;

COBALT COMPOUNDS; GRANITE; LEAD; MICA; MINERALOGY; MONAZITE; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; ROCKS; SHELLFISH; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; ZIRCON; ZIRCON DEPOSITS;

MONAZITE DEPOSITS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; METASEDIMENT; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; MINERALIZATION; MONAZITE; ORE DEPOSIT; ORTHOGNEISS; PROBE; SHRIMP DATING; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; XENOTIME; ZIRCON; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; METAMORPHIC FACIES;

BLACKBIRD; IDAHO; UNITED STATES;

CERVIDAE; TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 84867128694     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/econgeo.107.6.1143     Document Type: Article

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