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The copper deposits and geotectonic setting of the Thethyan Eurasian Metallogenic Belt

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The paper is concerned with the relationships between porphyry copper and massive-sulfide copper deposits, and their geotectonic environments in the Tethyan Eurasian Metallogenic Belt. This belt is located between the Afro-Arabian and Eurasian plates, almost 10,000 km long, linking the Alpine metallogenic system in Europe with Pacific system. A plate tectonic model for the tectonic evolution of this metallogenic belt in space and time is presented with emphasis on specific features of individual sectors.

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The paper was presented on the 25th International Geological Congress in Sydney, August 1976 (Symp. 104. 1)

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Janković, S. The copper deposits and geotectonic setting of the Thethyan Eurasian Metallogenic Belt. Mineral. Deposita 12, 37–47 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00204503

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