Barite concretions as evidence of pauses in sedimentation in the Marnes Bleues Formation of the Vocontian Basin (SE France)

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 130, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 205-228

  Bréhéret, Jean G ^a   Brumsack, Hans J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^b Inst F Chem und Biol des Meeres   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barite; Concretions; Diagenesis; Discontinuities; Major elements; Middle Cretaceous; Palaeoenvironment; Sulphur isotopes; Trace metals; Vocontian Trough

Indexed keywords

BARITE; CONCRETION; CRETACEOUS; DIAGENESIS; PALEOENVIRONMENT;

FRANCE;

EID: 0342905111     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(99)00112-8     Document Type: Article

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