Oblique magnetic fabric in siderite-bearing pelitic rocks of the Upper Carboniferous Culm Basin, SW England: An indicator for palaeo-fluid migration?

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 238, Issue , 2004, Pages 493-507

  De Wall, Helga ^a   Warr, Laurence N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; FLUID FLOW; FORELAND BASIN; MAGNETIC FABRIC; PELITE; SIDERITE;

CULM RIVER; DEVON; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

CARBONIFEROUS;

EID: 12844257500     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.238.01.25     Document Type: Article

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