Paleomagnetic dating of burial diagenesis in Mississippian carbonates, Utah

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Blumstein, Angela M ^a   Elmore, R Douglas ^a   Engel, Michael H ^a   Elliot, Crawford ^b   Basu, Ankan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Burial diagenesis; Remagnetization

Indexed keywords

BURIAL (GEOLOGY); DIAGENESIS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; LIMESTONE; MISSISSIPPIAN; PALEOMAGNETISM;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 3242765285     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JB002698     Document Type: Article

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