Quartz cement in the fontainebleau sandstone, Paris Basin, France: Crystallography and implications for mechanisms of cement growth

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 244-256

  Haddad, Sasha C ^a   Worden, Richard H ^a   Prior, David J ^a   Smalley, P Craig ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEMENTS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MICROCRYSTALS; SANDSTONE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CRYSTALLINE SILICA; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC ORIENTATIONS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC ROTATIONS; ELECTRON BACK SCATTER DIFFRACTION; EPITAXIAL RELATIONSHIPS; INTER-RELATIONSHIPS; VARIABLE ORIENTATION;

QUARTZ;

CEMENTATION; DIAGENESIS; QUARTZ; SANDSTONE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FONTAINEBLEAU FOREST; FRANCE; ILE-DE-FRANCE; SEINE-ET-MARNE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33644842888     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2006.024     Document Type: Article

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