Deep fracture fluids isolated in the crust since the Precambrian era

Nature

Volumn 497, Issue 7449, 2013, Pages 357-360

  Holland, G ^a,b   Lollar, B Sherwood ^c   Li, L ^c,e   Lacrampe Couloume, G ^c   Slater, G F ^d   Ballentine, C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIUM; INERT GAS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER; XENON; XENON 124; XENON 126; XENON 128;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; CHEMOAUTOTROPHY; DEFORMATION; FLUID INCLUSION; GOLD MINE; MINERALIZATION; PRECAMBRIAN; RESIDENCE TIME; TIMESCALE; XENON;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; DEEP FRACTURE FLUID; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; LIQUID; MEAN RESIDENCE TIME; MINERALIZATION; PRECAMBRIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SOUTH AFRICA;

ARGON; ATMOSPHERE; CANADA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HELIUM; HISTORY, ANCIENT; LIFE; MINING; NEON; NOBLE GASES; ONTARIO; WATER; XENON;

CANADA; CANADIAN SHIELD; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TIMMINS;

EID: 84878035202     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12127     Document Type: Article

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