Rare earth and rare metal elements mobility and mineralization during magmatic and fluid evolution in alkaline granite system: Evidence from fluid and melt inclusions in baerzhe granite, China

Resource Geology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 239-261

  Sun, Yi ^a   Lai, Yong ^a   Chen, Jing ^a   Shu, Qihai ^a   Yan, Cong ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Alkaline granite; Baerzhe Be Nb Zr REE deposit; Fluid overprint; Fluid separation; Great Hinggan Mountains; Melt and fluid inclusions

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; ELEMENT MOBILITY; FACIES; FLUID; FLUID COMPOSITION; FLUID INCLUSION; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GRANITE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; JURASSIC; LITHOLOGY; MAGMATISM; MELT INCLUSION; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT; ORE-FORMING FLUID; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SEPARATION;

CHINA; DA HINGGAN MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84879510581     PISSN: 13441698     EISSN: 17513928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rge.12007     Document Type: Article

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