Burial diagenesis model for the Macumber Formation on Cape Breton Island - Implications for the tectonic evolution of the Windsor Group

Atlantic Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 53-64

  Savard, Martine M ^a   Lynch, Greg ^a   Fallara, Francine ^a  

^a CR 7500   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURIAL HISTORY; CARBONIFEROUS; DIAGENESIS; LIMESTONE; MACUMBER FORMATION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; WINDSOR GROUP;

CANADA, NOVA SCOTIA, CAPE BRETON ISLAND;

EID: 0030468722     PISSN: 08435561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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