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Hydrothermal ore deposits in collisional orogens

Yongfei Zheng1, Jingwen Mao2, Yanjing Chen3

  • 1Key Laboratory of Crust-Mantle Materials and Environments, Chinese Academy of Sciences, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China.

Science Bulletin
|January 20, 2023
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Summary

Hydrothermal ore deposits form in continental crust through plate tectonics. Collisional orogens, previously thought unfavorable, host significant metal enrichment due to pre-enrichment from subduction and later reactivation by extension.

Keywords:
Accretionary orogenCollisional orogenHydrothermal fluidOre depositsRifting orogenTectonic reactivation

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