How Much Water in Basaltic Melts Parental to Porphyry Copper Deposits?
Porphyry copper deposits are formed by aqueous fluids exsolved by differentiated, mantle-derived magmas variably mixed with crustal melts. Water is essential to form porphyry Cu mineralization, and this explains why these deposits are found only at convergent margin settings, where subduction has en...
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2020-06-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Earth Science |
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| Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feart.2020.00138/full |