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Evidence of Shallow-Marine Depositional Environment of the Host Rocks of the Madneuli Polymetallic Deposit, Bolnisi District, Lesser Caucasus, Georgia
Authors
Popkhadze, Nino
Moritz, Robert
Gialli, Stefano
Gugushvili, Vladimer
Published in Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide ore deposits. 2015
Description 2083-2086
Abstract The Madneuli copper-gold polymetallic deposit is the major ore deposit of the Georgian Bolnisi mining district in the Artvin-Bolnisi belt in the southeastern part of Georgia, Lesser Caucasus. Numerous ore deposits occur in the Bolnisi region connected with Upper Cretaceous explosive volcanic events. This investigation is based on physical volcanology and facies architecture of the host rocks, and was applied for the first time in this region. Our study shows that the predominant part of the host rock sequence of the Madneuli polymetallic deposit was deposited under submarine conditions, which is in agreement with volcanogenic massive sulfide models or transitional, shallow submarine magmatic to epithermal models that were proposed by previous studies.
Keywords Cretaceous — Caucasus — Turbidite — Hyaloclastite — Sedimentary structure — Phreatomagmatic breccia
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Faculté des sciences / Section des sciences de la Terre et de l'Environnement / Département des sciences de la Terre
Research group Mineral Ressources and Geofluids
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(ISO format) 		POPKHADZE, Nino et al. Evidence of Shallow-Marine Depositional Environment of the Host Rocks of the Madneuli Polymetallic Deposit, Bolnisi District, Lesser Caucasus, Georgia. In: Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide ore deposits. [s.l.] : [s.n.], 2015. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:75030

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