Tectonic controls on early mesozoic paired alkaline porphyry deposit belts (Cu-Au ± Ag-Pt-Pd-Mo) within the Canadian Cordillera

Economic Geology

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 827-858

  Logan, James M ^a   Mihalynuk, Mitchell G ^a  

^a Ministry of Energy Mines and Petroleum Resources   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; EROSION; LANDFORMS; MINERALOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SILVER; SILVER DEPOSITS; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

CRUSTAL LEVELS; NORTH AMERICAN; OCEANIC ARC ROCKS; PERMO-TRIASSIC; PORPHYRY DEPOSITS; TECTONIC CONTROL; THERMAL SPIKES; UNDERLYING CAUSE;

MOLYBDENUM;

BACKARC BASIN; BATHOLITH; CALC ALKALINE ROCK; CARBONIFEROUS; CARNIAN; COPPER; CORDILLERA; DEVONIAN; GOLD; ISLAND ARC; MAGMATISM; METALLOGENESIS; METASOMATISM; MINERALIZATION; MOLYBDENUM; NORIAN; PALLADIUM; PERMIAN; PICRITE; PLATINUM; PORPHYRY; SILVER; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TERRANE; TETHYS;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; CANADIAN CORDILLERA; QUESNEL; STIKINE PLATEAU;

EID: 84897144587     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: 15540774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/econgeo.109.4.827     Document Type: Article

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