Lower Paleozoic foreland basins in eastern Canada: Tectono-thermal events recorded by faults, fluids and hydrothermal dolomites

Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 17-35

  Lavoie, Denis ^a   Chi, Guoxiang ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONVERGENT MARGIN; DOLOMITIZATION; FORELAND BASIN; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENTS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LATE ORDOVICIAN; LOWER PALEOZOIC; ORDOVICIAN; ROCK WATER INTERACTION; SHALLOW MARINE; TECTONO-THERMAL EVENT; THERMAL CONVECTIONS;

FLUIDS;

CARBONATES;

BRINE; CARBONATE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DOLOMITE; DOLOMITIZATION; FAULTING; FORELAND BASIN; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; LAURENTIA; ORDOVICIAN; OROGENY; PETROGRAPHY; SEDIMENTATION; SILURIAN; SUBSIDENCE;

CANADA; GASPE PENINSULA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 77951499066     PISSN: 00074802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gscpgbull.58.1.17     Document Type: Article

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