Chapter 8 Provenance and Diagenesis of Heavy Minerals, Cenozoic Units of the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico Sedimentary Basin

Developments in Sedimentology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2007, Pages 247-261

  Milliken, Kitty L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

diagenesis; Gulf of Mexico; mineral dissolution; provenance; scanning electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 44349148393     PISSN: 00704571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-4571(07)58008-8     Document Type: Review

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