Sediment dewatering and pore fluid migration along thrust faults in a foreland basin inferred from isotopic and elemental geochemical analyses (Eocene southern Pyrenees, Spain)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 282, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 375-398

  Travé, Anna ^a,b   Labaume, Pierre ^a   Calvet, Francesc ^b   Soler, Albert ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Eocene; Geochemistry; Paleofluids; Pyrenees; Thrust faults

Indexed keywords

DEWATERING; FORELAND BASIN; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PORE FLUID MIGRATION; THRUST;

SPAIN, PYRENEES;

EID: 0031422593     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00225-4     Document Type: Article

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