Ore-bearing Granite Systems; Petrogenesis and Mineralizing Processes

Comparative petrologic evolution of the Sn and W granites of the Fairbanks-Circle area, interior Alaska
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Published:January 01, 1990
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R. J. Newberry, L. E. Burns, S. E. Swanson, T. E. Smith, 1990. "Comparative petrologic evolution of the Sn and W granites of the Fairbanks-Circle area, interior Alaska", Ore-bearing Granite Systems; Petrogenesis and Mineralizing Processes, Holly J. Stein, Judith L. Hannah
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Late Cretaceous to Early Tertiary granitic plutons associated with W skarn or Sn greisen-skarn occur interspersed in a belt 70 × 200-km-long just northeast of Fairbanks, Alaska. All plutons intrude the late Precambrian–early Paleozoic Yukon-Tanana terrane and are similar in major-element compositions (dominantly granodiorite to monzogranite), initial Sr isotopic ratios (0.710 to 0.719), and Pb isotopic signatures (206Pb/204Pb = 19.17 to 19.37). Biotite compositions and opaque mineral abundances indicate both types of plutons crystallized along a buffered path intermediate between nickel–nickel oxide and quartz-magnetite-fayalite. Both suites contain multiple igneous units, with younger, usually equigranular, units spatially...
- Alaska
- alkaline earth metals
- Cenozoic
- confining pressure
- Cretaceous
- crystallization
- differentiation
- East-Central Alaska
- Fairbanks Alaska
- geochemistry
- granites
- greisen
- I-type granites
- igneous rocks
- intrusions
- isotope ratios
- isotopes
- lead
- lower Tertiary
- magmas
- major elements
- Mesozoic
- metal ores
- metals
- metamorphic rocks
- metasomatic rocks
- mineral composition
- mineralization
- ore grade
- Pb-206/Pb-204
- placers
- plutonic rocks
- plutons
- radioactive isotopes
- rare earths
- skarn
- Sr-87/Sr-86
- stable isotopes
- strontium
- Tertiary
- textures
- tin ores
- tonnage
- trace elements
- tungsten ores
- United States
- Upper Cretaceous
- Circle Alaska