RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES, VOL. 18, ES6002, doi:10.2205/2018ES000635, 2018
| Cycle | Metallogenic types of lithium LSLD | |||||||||||||||||||
| Pegmatites | Li-F rare-metal granites | Epithermal stratabound | Salar brines | |||||||||||||||||
| $N$ | $R$ | $R_{m}$ | $C$ | $x'$ | $N$ | $R$ | $R_{m}$ | $C$ | $X$ | $N$ | $R$ | $R_{m}$ | $C$ | $X$ | $N$ | $R$ | $R_{m}$ | $C$ | $X$ | |
| Kenoran | 22 | 17.22 | 0.78 | 1.42 | 100.0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Columbian | 7 | 2.44 | 0.35 | 1.05 | 100.0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Rodinian | 2 | 7.70 | 3.85 | 1.19 | 100.0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Pangean | 12 | 9.50 | 0.79 | 1.39 | 89.8 | 3 | 1.08 | 0.36 | 0.77 | 10.2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Amasian | 4 | 3.28 | 0.82 | 1.35 | 7.6 | 2 | 1.28 | 0.64 | 0.67 | 3.0 | 3 | 6.49 | 2.16 | 0.90 | 15.1 | 16 | 31.90 | 1.99 | 0.12 | 74.3 |
| Total | 47 | 40.14 | 0.83 | 1.34 | 49.0 | 5 | 2.36 | 0.47 | 0.71 | 3.0 | 3 | 6.49 | 2.16 | 0.90 | 8.1 | 16 | 31.90 | 1.99 | 0.12 | 40.0 |
| Note: $x'$ – share of integrated resources of LSLDs of given type referred to the given supercontinent cycle relative to the total resources of the cycle (%); the other indications are the same as in Table 2. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Citation: Tkachev A. V., D. V. Rundqvist, N. A. Vishnevskaya (2018), Metallogeny of lithium through geological time, Russ. J. Earth Sci., 18, ES6002, doi:10.2205/2018ES000635.
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