... Ore-Deposits Near Igneous Contacts. ... There are numerous contacts between the limestone and the igneous rocks of the Cananea district;-in fact, all the lime- ...
... The region has con- sisted of a single island arc since Mid- ·Tertiary times and linear belts of volcano- plutonic igneous rocks mark the positions of the ...
... that: • most ore deposits were emplaced in the late middle to early late Miocene; and • are related to calc-alkaline granodioritic igneous rocks with Sm/Yb ...
... GENERAL GEOLOGY A variety of sedimentary rocks and extrusive and intrusive igneous rocks, ranging in age from Proterozoic to Recent, occur in the quadrangle. ...
... This igneous activity was followed by Late Palaeozoic transgressive continental volcanoclastics and by Carboniferous to Perrnian granitic plutons and ...
... The Ok Tedi ore body occurs within a complex of acid igneous rocks, the Ok Tedi Igneous Complex, which is intruded into a sedimentary pile consisting of at ...
... History of Mine Topography Geology of Area General Description Igneous Rock Types Granodiorite Quartz monzonite Aplite Granite porphyry Metasomatic Action . ...