The geochemical evolution of the Catalan potash subbasin, South Pyrenean foreland basin (Spain)

Chemical Geology

Volumn 200, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 339-357

  Cendon D I ^a   Ayora, C ^b   Pueyo, J J ^c   Taberner, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Evaporites; Fluid inclusions; South Pyrenean foreland basin; Sulphate isotopes; Sylvite

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; EOCENE; EVAPORITE; FORELAND BASIN; GEOCHEMISTRY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOHYDROLOGY; POTASH;

CATALAN BASIN; CATALONIA; SPAIN;

EID: 0141907205     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2541(03)00195-5     Document Type: Article

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