Coral reef diagenesis records pore-fluid evolution and paleohydrology of a siliciclastic basin margin succession (Eocene South Pyrenean foreland basin, northeastern Spain)

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 3-3, 1999, Pages 395-411

  Hendry, James P ^a,e   Taberner, Conxita ^b   Marshall, James D ^c   Pierre, Catherine ^d   Carey, Paul F ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e Gas Research and Technology Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CEMENTS; FERTILIZERS; HYDROLOGY; ISOTOPES; REEFS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

ELEMENTAL COMPOSITIONS; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FLUID-ROCK INTERACTION; HOMOGENIZATION TEMPERATURES; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; PARAGENETIC ASSOCIATION; SHALLOW BURIAL DEPTHS; SILICICLASTIC ENVIRONMENT;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

CORAL REEF; DIAGENESIS; EOCENE; FORELAND BASIN; PALEOHYDROLOGY; WATER-ROCK INTERACTION;

PYRENEES; SPAIN;

EID: 0033007424     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<0395:CRDRPF>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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