Composition of brines in halite-hosted fluid inclusions in the upper Ordovician, Canning Basin, Western Australia: New data on seawater chemistry

Terra Nova

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 95-103

  Kovalevych, Volodymyr M ^a   Peryt, Tadeusz Marek ^b   Zang, Wenlong ^c   Vovnyuk, Serhiy V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^b POLISH GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c AUSTRALIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGENESIS; HALITE; ORDOVICIAN;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CANNING BASIN; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33645087903     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2006.00668.x     Document Type: Article

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