Constraints on the thermal history of Taylorsville Basin, Virginia, U.S.A., from fluid-inclusion and fission-track analyses: Implications for subsurface geomicrobiology experiments

Chemical Geology

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 297-311

  Tseng, Hsin Yi ^a   Onstott, T C ^a   Burruss, R C ^b   Miller, D S ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^c RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE; FISSION TRACK ANALYSIS; FLUID INCLUSION; MICROBIAL POPULATION; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; THERMAL EVOLUTION; TRIASSIC;

USA, VIRGINIA, TAYLORSVILLE BASIN;

EID: 0029750064     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0009-2541(95)00130-1     Document Type: Article

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