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Journal of the Geological Society; 1996; v. 153; issue.5; p. 673-676;
DOI: 10.1144/gsjgs.153.5.0673
© 1996 Geological Society of London

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Pb-isotope evidence for the role of Mesozoic basins in the genesis of Mississippi Valley-type mineralization in Somerset, UK

R. HAGGERTY, P. BUDD, B. ROHL1 & N. H. GALE1

Ancient Metallurgy Research Group, Department of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford BD7 1DP, UK

The Mendip–Bristol veinfield is one of a number of British Mississippi Valley-type deposits, the genesis of which has never been fully explained. The Mendip–Bristol Pb-Zn–Ba vein mineralization is hosted in Carboniferous, Permo-Triassic and Jurassic sediments. The metal sources involved during mineralization were investigated using Pb-isotope analysis of vein galenas.206Pb/206pb values range from 18 311 to 18.594,207Pb/204Pb values from 15.601 to 15.688 and 208Pb/204Pb values from 38.257 to 38.565. The data show three isotopically different mineralizing fluids, which it is suggested reflect fluid expulsion from adjacent Mesozoic sedimentary basins, as a result of overpressuring due to rapid subsidence in the Triassic–Jurassic.


Keywords: Mendip Hills, Mississippi Valley-type, mineral deposits, genesis, lead, isotopes.




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