Criteria for the recognition of shallow-perennial-saline-lake halites based on recent sediments from the Qaidam basin, Western China

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 74-87

  Schubel, Kathryn A ^a,b   Lowenstein, Tim K ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAFAYETTE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE MINERALS; DEPOSITS; DISSOLUTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STRATIGRAPHY; TEXTURES;

CENTIMETER-SCALE; CONTINUOUS LAYERS; DISSOLUTION SURFACES; EXPANSION AND CONTRACTION; SEDIMENTARY TEXTURES; SPATIAL EVOLUTION; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS;

LAKES;

EVAPORITE; FACIES DISTRIBUTION; HALITE; SALINE LAKE; TEXTURE;

CHINA, QAIDAM BASIN;

EID: 0030957875     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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