Discriminating temperate carbonates and their diagenetic environments using bulk elemental geochemistry: A reconnaissance study based on New Zealand cenozoic limestones

Carbonates and Evaporites

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 19-31

  Winefield, Peter R ^a,b   Nelson, Campbell S ^a   Hodder, A Peter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAINOZOIC; CARBONATE; DIAGENESIS; LIMESTONE; SEDIMENTARY GEOCHEMISTRY; TEMPERATE CARBONATE;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0029750633     PISSN: 08912556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03175782     Document Type: Article

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