Remagnetization in bituminous limestones of the Neoproterozoic Araras Group (Amazon craton): Hydrocarbon maturation, burial diagenesis, or both?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Font, Eric ^a,b   Trindade, R I F ^a   Nedelec A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE GROUP; DIAGENESIS; DOLOSTONE; FOLD BELT; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; METAMORPHISM; PYRRHOTITE; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; SUCCESSION;

EID: 33750529715     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JB004106     Document Type: Article

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