Iron mineralization and dolomitization in the Paran Fault zone, Israel: Implications for low-temperature basinal fluid processes near the Dead Sea Transform

Geofluids

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 137-153

  Grosz, S ^a   Matthews, Alan ^a   Ilani, S ^b   Ayalon, A ^b   Garfunkel, Z ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dead Sea Transform; Epigenetic dolomitization; Mineralization; Oxygen isotopes

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE ROCK; DOLOMITE; DOLOMITIZATION; FAULT ZONE; FRACTIONATION; IRON; MINERALIZATION; MODEL; OXYGEN ISOTOPE;

ASIA; DEAD SEA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 33645877937     PISSN: 14688115     EISSN: 14688123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-8123.2006.00139.x     Document Type: Article

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