Meteoric diagenesis of Quaternary carbonate-rocky talus slope successions (Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria)

Facies

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-46

  Sanders, Diethard G ^a   Ostermann, Marc ^a   Kramers, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cementation; Diagenesis; Eastern Alps; Quaternary; Talus slopes; Uranium thorium

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CEMENTATION; DEPOSITION; DIAGENESIS; DISSOLUTION; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; THORIUM; TILL; URANIUM;

ALPS; EASTERN ALPS;

EID: 77952672530     PISSN: 01729179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10347-009-0194-4     Document Type: Article

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