Circumgranular bassanite in a gypsum crust from eastern Algeria - A potential palaeosurface indicator

Sedimentology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1139-1145

  Mees, Florias ^a   Stoops, Georges ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Algeria; Bassanite; Diagenesis; Evaporites; Gypsum

Indexed keywords

BASSANITE; DIAGENESIS; EVAPORITE; GYPSUM; PALEOSURFACE;

AFRICA; ALGERIA; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 0347900571     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.2003.00598.x     Document Type: Article

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