Fluid inclusion and stable isotope analyses of veins from the central Appalachian Valley and Ridge province: Implications for regional synorogenic hydrologic structure and fluid migration

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1841-1860

  Evans, Mark A ^a   Battles, Denise A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; MINERALOGY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STRATIGRAPHY;

FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; OUT OF SEQUENCES; REGIONAL AQUIFERS; STABLE-ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; STRATIGRAPHIC UNITS; THERMAL MATURATION; TRAPPING CONDITION;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS;

ALLEGHANIAN OROGENY; FLUID INCLUSION; GEOTHERMOMETRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; VEIN (GEOLOGY);

APPALACHIANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033495127     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<1841:FIASIA>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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