Evolution of gas and aqueous fluid in low-permeability argillaceous rocks during uplift and exhumation of the central Swiss Alps

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 211-234

  Mazurek, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE OROGENY; EXHUMATION; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; MARL; UPLIFT;

ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0033990311     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0883-2927(99)00062-1     Document Type: Article

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