Simultaneous use of thermal indicators to analyse the transition from diagenesis to metamorphism: An example from the Variscan Belt of northwest Spain

Geological Magazine

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 323-334

  Garcia Lopez, Susana ^a   Brime, Covadonga ^a   Bastida, Fernando ^a   Sarmiento, Graciela N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY MINERALOGY; CONODONT COLOUR ALTERATION INDEX; DIAGENESIS; FABRIC; ILLITE CRYSTALLINITY; VERY LOW GRADE METAMORPHISM;

SPAIN, CANTABRIA;

EID: 0030801709     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756897006882     Document Type: Article

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