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Tin mineralisation above mantle hot spots

Nature volume 248, pages 497–499 (1974)Cite this article

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MANY important tin belts of Phanerozoic age, including those in Bolivia, Mexico, Alaska, Malaysia-Indonesia, eastern Australia and western Europe, are believed to have formed above subduction zones at convergent plate margins1,2. If the late Tertiary mineralisation in the southern part of the Eastern Cordillera of Bolivia is representative of this type, then the mineralisation occurred above the deepest parts of subduction zones with the tin perhaps related to partial fusion of subducted oceanic lithosphere1.

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