Deposition and diagenesis of carbonate conglomerates in the Kremenara anticline, Albania: A paragenetic time marker in the Albanian foreland fold-and-thrust belt

Sedimentology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 483-496

  Breesch, Liesbeth ^a   Swennen, Rudy ^a   Dewever, Ben ^a   Mezini, Ajet ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b National Scientific Centre of Hydrocarbons   (Albania)

Author keywords

Burial history; Conglomerates; Lonian zone; Paragenesis; Stylolites

Indexed keywords

ANTICLINE; BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CEMENTATION; CONGLOMERATE; DEPOSITION; DIAGENESIS; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; KARSTIFICATION; PARAGENESIS; STYLOLITE; UPLIFT;

ALBANIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34249071302     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2006.00835.x     Document Type: Article

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