1. Mineral Resources
2. Online Spatial Data
3. Basement domains of the conterminous US and Alaska

Geological environments and metal endowments found in Back-arc basin basement domains

Geological environment: Spreading ridge

Primary metal endowments: Cu-Zn-Pb ±Au-Ag-Ba VMS

References

Shanks, W.C. Pat, III, and Thurston, Roland, eds., 2012, Volcanogenic massive sulfide occurrence model: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2010–5070–C, 345 p.

doi: 10.3133/sir20105070C

Geological environment: Supracrustal basin

Primary metal endowments: Cu ± Pb-Zn sedex

References

Goodfellow, W.D., and Lydon, J.W., 2007, Sedimentary exhalative (SEDEX) deposits, in Goodfellow, W.D., ed., Mineral deposits of Canada—A synthesis of major deposit-types, district metallogeny, the evolution of geological provinces, and exploration methods: Geological Association of Canada, p. 163–184.

Leach, D.L., Sangster, D.F., Kelley, K.D., Large, R.R., Garven, G., Allen, C.R., Gutzmer, J., and Walters, S., 2005, Sediment-hosted lead-zinc deposits—A global perspective, in Hedenquist, J.W., and others, eds., Economic Geology 100th Anniversary Volume p. 561–607.