Tectonic controls on the endowment of Neoarchean cratons in volcanic-hosted massive sulfide deposits: Evidence from lead and neodymium isotopes

Economic Geology

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 11-26

  Huston, David L ^a   Champion, David C ^a   Cassidy, Kevin F ^a,b  

^a GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Bare Rock Geological Services   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD ISOTOPE RATIOS; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPES; RADIOGENIC ISOTOPES; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL PATTERNS; TECTONIC CONTROL; TECTONIC HISTORY; VOLCANIC-HOSTED MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSITS; VOLCANIC-HOSTED MASSIVE SULFIDES;

DEPOSITS; GOLD; GOLD DEPOSITS; LEAD; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; NEODYMIUM; NICKEL; NICKEL DEPOSITS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SULFUR DEPOSITS;

ISOTOPES;

ARCHEAN; CRATON; ECONOMIC GEOLOGY; EMPLACEMENT; GOLD; HEAT FLOW; IGNEOUS ROCK; ISOTOPIC RATIO; KOMATIITE; LEAD ISOTOPE; MAGMATISM; MASSIVE SULFIDE; METALLOGENESIS; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; TECTONIC SETTING; TERRANE; VOLCANOLOGY;

ABITIBI; CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; QUEBEC [CANADA]; SUPERIOR PROVINCE; WAWA;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 84891648725     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: 15540774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/econgeo.109.1.11     Document Type: Review

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