Multiple episodes of dolomitization and dolomite recrystallization during shallow burial in Upper Jurassic shelf carbonates: Eastern Swabian Alb, southern Germany

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 121, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 71-95

  Reinhold, C ^a,b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b TUI   (Germany)

Author keywords

Compaction fluid; Dolomite; Germany; Recrystallization; Shallow burial diagenesis; Upper Jurassic

Indexed keywords

BURIAL DIAGENESIS; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; DOLOMITIZATION; JURASSIC; RECRYSTALLIZATION; SHELF SEDIMENT;

GERMANY;

EID: 0032194225     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(98)00077-3     Document Type: Article

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