Columnar calcites as testimony of diagenetic overprinting at the boundary between Upper Tournaisian dolomites and limestones (Belgium): Multiple origins for apparently similar features

Sedimentology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 945-967

  Nielsen, Peter ^a,e   Muchez, Philippe ^a   Heijlen, Wouter ^a   Fallick, A E Tony ^b   Keppens, Eddy ^c   Weis, Dominique ^d   Swennen, Rudy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^e FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Columnar calcite; Diagenesis; Palaeokarst; Palisade calcite

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; DIAGENESIS; OVERPRINTING; PALEOKARST; PETROGRAPHY;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33745279599     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2005.00727.x     Document Type: Article

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