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Metallogeny and Plate Tectonics
Metallogeny and Plate Tectonics
Metallogeny and Plate Tectonics
Ph.D.
It is important to stress
that most of the Earth’s
richest ore provinces
are found above
subduction zones.
A- The highly significant Andean type
(ocean-continent) collisional margins are
the sites of the great porphyry Cu–Mo
provinces of the world, while inboard of
the arc significant Sn–W granitoid-
hosted mineralization also occurs. The
volcanic regions above the porphyry Metallogeny of active continental
systems are also the sites of epithermal margins with the typical zonation.