Multiple-stage diagenetic alteration and fluid history of Ordovician carbonate-hosted barite mineralization, Southern Quebec Appalachians

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 121-139

  Paradis, Suzanne ^a,b   Lavoie, Denis ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARITE; CARBONATE; CEMENTATION; DIAGENESIS; MINERALIZATION;

CANADA, QUEBEC, APPALACHIANS;

EID: 0030425742     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(96)00025-5     Document Type: Article

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