Conditions of meteoric calcite formation along a Variscan fault and their possible relation to climatic evolution during the Jurassic-Cretaceous

Sedimentology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 845-854

  Muchez, P ^a   Nielsen, P ^a,b   Sintubin, M ^a   Lagrou, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; GEOCHEMISTRY; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; MESOZOIC; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY);

EUROPE;

EID: 0032465354     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.1998.00182.x     Document Type: Article

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