Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonics and the age of porphyry copper prospects; Chignik and Sutwik Island quadrangles, Alaska Peninsula

1980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederic H. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Porphyry Copper ◽  
Alaska Peninsula ◽  
Late Mesozoic ◽  
Cenozoic Tectonics

scholarly journals Himalayan and Trans Himalayan granitic rocks in and adjacent to Nepal and their mineral potential

1981 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. H. G. Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Root Zone ◽  
Porphyry Copper ◽  
Tectonic Setting ◽  
Granitic Rocks ◽  
Main Central Thrust ◽  
Southern Tibet ◽  
Late Mesozoic ◽  
The North ◽  
Augen Gneiss ◽  
Host Rocks

Granitic rocks occupying eight distinct tectonic settings can be recognized in the Himalayas and   Transhimalayas.  In the Lower Himalayas geographical belt a few plutons of two-mica granite intrude the lowest unit of the Nawakot Complex or Midland Group. More extensive are sheet- like lies of augen gneiss intrusive within a possibly thrust bounded succession carbonates and graphitic schists beneath the Main Central Thrust to the north. The most abundant granites in the Lower Himalayas are the two- mica cordierite- bearing granite within klippen; minor tin and tungsten mineralization is associated with these plutons, which are of late Cambrian age. Within the Higher Himalayas above the Main Central Thrust, the ‘Central Crystallines’ or Central Gneisses include pegmatites and pegmatitic granites intrusive into gneisses of probable early Proterozoic age; these have same potential for ruby, sapphire, aquamarine and possibly spodumene. Further north within the Higher Himalayan succession a southern belt of anatectic two- mica granites and leucogranites of mid-Tertiary age is favorable for tin, tungsten and uranium mineralization; a northern belt of granites or gneisses is of uncertain age and origin. North of the Indus Suture in the Transhimalayas extensive batholiths of hornblende granodiorite representing the root zone of a late Mesozoic to early Eocene volcanic arc are associated with porphyry copper deposits. Further north in southern Tibet the tectonic, setting for reported granitic bodies of  Tertiary  age  is  uncertain; their location suggests that they could be favorable host rocks for tin, uranium and porphyry molybdenum mineralization.

Paleomagnetic data from Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, and the Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonics of Sundaland

Tectonics ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric A. Schmidtke ◽  
Michael D. Fuller ◽  
Roger B. Haston
Keyword(s):  
Paleomagnetic Data ◽  
Late Mesozoic ◽  
Cenozoic Tectonics ◽  
Malaysian Borneo
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