Golden plumes: Substantial gold enrichment of oceanic crust during ridge-plume interaction

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 87-90

  Webber, A P ^a   Roberts, S ^a   Taylor, R N ^a   Pitcairn, I K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC RELATIONSHIPS; GOLD MINERALIZATION; ICELAND PLUME; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE UPWELLINGS; MID ATLANTIC RIDGE; OCEANIC BASALTS; OCEANIC CRUST; SYSTEMATIC STUDY;

GEOLOGY;

GOLD;

BASALT; GOLD; MANTLE PLUME; MINERALIZATION; OCEANIC CRUST; ORE DEPOSIT; UPWELLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE;

EID: 84872128906     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33301.1     Document Type: Article

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