Link between long-lasting evaporitic basins and the development of thick and massive phreatic calcrete hardpans in the Mississippian Windsor and Percé groups of eastern Canada

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 201, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 75-92

  Jutras, P ^a   Utting, J ^b   McLeod, J ^a  

^a SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Groundwater; La Coul e Calcrete; Mississippian; Perc Group; Phreatic calcrete hardpans; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CALCRETE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CORRELATION; DATA SET; MISSISSIPPIAN; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOZOIC; STABLE ISOTOPE; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; WINDSOR;

EID: 34548362083     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2007.04.008     Document Type: Article

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