Evaporative systems and diagenetic patterns in the Calatayud Basin (Miocene, central Spain)

Sedimentology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 665-685

  Ortí, Federico ^a   Rosell, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anhydrite; Calatayud; Cyclicity; Diagenesis; Glauberite; Gypsiferous crusts; Gypsum; Lacustrine evaporites; Miocene; Siliceous crusts; Spain

Indexed keywords

ANHYDRITE; CYCLIC SEDIMENTATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DIAGENESIS; EVAPORITE; MIOCENE;

SPAIN;

EID: 0033912986     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.2000.00321.x     Document Type: Article

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