Fluid dynamics and subsurface sediment mobilization processes: An overview from Southeast Caribbean

Basin Research

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 361-379

  Deville, Éric ^a   Guerlais, Sophie Hélène ^a   Lallemant, Siegfried ^b   Schneider, Frédéric ^a,c  

^a IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CERGY PONTOISE   (France)

^c BEICIP FRANLAB   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID FLOW; FLUID INCLUSION; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; MOBILIZATION; MUD VOLCANO; OVERPRESSURE; QUARTZ; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; TECTONIC SETTING; TURBIDITE;

BARBADOS; TRINIDAD [TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO]; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

EID: 77955155522     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2010.00474.x     Document Type: Article

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