Composition, diagenesis, and weathering of the sediments and basement of the Callabonna Sub-basin, central Australia: Implications for landscape evolution

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1036-1050

  Tonui, Eric ^a,b   de Caritat, Patrice ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^b Australian Geol Survey Organisation ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; CRYSTALLINITY; EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; FELDSPAR; KAOLINITE; MICA; MINERAL EXPLORATION; QUARTZ; REFLECTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TEXTURES; WEATHERING;

ABSORPTION FEATURES; CHEMICAL ALTERATION; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; MINERAL ASSEMBLAGE; REGIONAL LANDSCAPES; SEDIMENT PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTARY COVERS; TRANSPORTED MATERIALS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS;

BASIN EVOLUTION; BASIN FILL; DIAGENESIS; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CALLABONNA BASIN;

EID: 0141830488     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/041303731036     Document Type: Article

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