Blocky calcite cement from the suwannee terrane: Evidence for mixing of middle to high latitude meteoric and sea water

Carbonates and Evaporites

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 125-129

  Tobin, Kenneth J ^a   Walker, Kenneth R ^a   Goldberg, Steven G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCKY CEMENT; CALCITE; METEORIC WATER; SEAWATER; SULPHATE REDUCTION;

USA, ALABAMA;

EID: 0030670104     PISSN: 08912556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03175811     Document Type: Article

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