Correlating paleomagnetic, geochemical and petrographic evidence to date diagenetic and fluid flow events in the Mississippian Turner Valley Formation, Moose Field, Alberta, Canada

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 131, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 109-129

  Cioppa, M T ^a   Al Aasm, I S ^a   Symons, D T A ^a   Lewchuk, M T ^a,b   Gillen, K P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c Vox Terrae International   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbonates; Diagenesis; Mississippian; Paleomagnetism; Stable isotope geochemistry; Western Canada Sedimentary Basin

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE ROCK; DIAGENESIS; FLUID FLOW; MISSISSIPPIAN; PALEOMAGNETISM;

CANADA;

EID: 0034653247     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(99)00134-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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