Fluid evolution along multistage composite fault systems at the southern margin of the Lower Palaeozoic Anglo-Brabant fold belt, Belgium

Geofluids

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 341-356

  Dewaele, Stijn ^a   Muchez, Ph ^a   Banks, D A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anglo Brabant fold belt; Basement fluids; Fluid flow evolution; Fluid geochemistry; Late Silurian early Devonian orogeny; Mesozonal mineralisation

Indexed keywords

FAULT; FRACTURE FLOW; HYDROGEOLOGY; MINERALIZATION; PALEOZOIC; VEIN (GEOLOGY);

BELGIUM; BENELUX; BRABANT MASSIF; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 7244261877     PISSN: 14688115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-8123.2004.00096.x     Document Type: Article

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