Sulphate-borate relations in an evaporitic lacustrine environment: The Sultancayir Gypsum (Miocene, western Anatolia)

Sedimentology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 697-710

  Orti F ^a   Helvaci, C ^a   Rosell, L ^a   Gundogan I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORATE; DIAGENESIS; EVAPORITE; GYPSUM; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MINERAL ALTERATION; MIOCENE; SULFATE;

TURKEY;

EID: 0032437363     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.1998.00167.x     Document Type: Article

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