- Mineral Resources
- Online Spatial Data
- Basement domains of the conterminous US and Alaska
Geological environments and metal endowments found in Passive margin basement domains
- Geological environment: Marginal basin (miogeocline)
- Primary metal endowments: Zn-Pb-Ag ± Au and barite sedimentary exhalative (sedex)
References
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Dawson, K.M., Panteleyev, A., Sutherland Brown, A., and Woodsworth, G.J., 1991, Regional metallogeny, in Gabrielse, Hugh, and Yorath, C.J., eds., Geology of the Cordilleran orogen in Canada: Geological Society of America Geology of North America, v. G-2, p. 709–768.
Goodfellow, W.D., Lydon, J.W.T., and Turner, R.J.W., 1993, Geology and genesis of stratiform sediment-hosted (SEDEX) zinc-lead-silver sulphide deposits, in Kirkham, R.V., and others, eds., Mineral deposit modeling: Geological Association of Canada Special Paper 40, p. 201–251.