Origin of dolomites in the Cretaceous Maha Sarakham evaporites of the Khorat Plateau, northeast Thailand

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 157, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 235-252

  El Tabakh, Mohamed ^a   Utha Aroon, Cherdsak ^b   Warren, John K ^c   Schreiber, B Charlotte ^d  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Department of Mineral Resources ^*  (Thailand)

^c UNIVERSITI BRUNEI DARUSSALAM   (Brunei Darussalam)

^d APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dolomites; Evaporites; Khorat Plateau; Thailand

Indexed keywords

BRINE; BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CRETACEOUS; CRYSTALLIZATION; DOLOMITE; EVAPORITE; PETROGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY);

KHORAT PLATEAU; THAILAND;

EID: 0037461168     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(02)00235-X     Document Type: Article

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