Chapter 3 Silicification of Continental Carbonates

Developments in Sedimentology

Volumn 62, Issue C, 2010, Pages 153-178

  Bustillo, Maria Angeles ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

chert; continental carbonates; diagenesis; opaline rocks

Indexed keywords

EID: 71049179478     PISSN: 00704571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-4571(09)06203-7     Document Type: Review

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