Kaolin polytype evidence for a hot-fluid pulse along Caledonian thrusts during rifting of the European margin

Mineralogical Magazine

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 419-432

  Parnell, J ^a   Watt, G ^a   Chen, H ^a   Wycherley, H ^a   Boyce, A ^b   Elmore, D ^c   Blumstein, R ^c   Engel, M ^c   Green, P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d Unit 14   (Australia)

Author keywords

Caledonian; Dickite; European margin; Hematite; Kaolin; Moine thrust; Polytype

Indexed keywords

CALEDONIAN THRUSTS; HEAT FLOW;

CATCHMENTS; FRACTURE; ISOTOPES; REMANENCE; SETTLING TANKS;

MINERALOGY;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DICKITE; FLUID FLOW; HEAT FLOW; KAOLIN; PERMIAN; RIFTING; THRUST;

CALEDONIDES; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 4444253746     PISSN: 0026461X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1180/0026461046830195     Document Type: Article

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