Mass transfer and porosity evolution during low temperature water-rock interaction in gneisses of the simano nappe: Arvigo, Val Calanca, Swiss Alps

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 61-81

  Weisenberger, Tobias ^a,b   Bucher, Kurt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Albitisation; Arvigo; Laumontite; Prehnite; Reaction Vein; Swiss Alps; Water Rock Interaction

Indexed keywords

ALPINE OROGENY; AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CHEMICAL ALTERATION; EPIDOTE; FISSURE; GNEISS; GREENSCHIST FACIES; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; LAUMONTITE; LOW TEMPERATURE; MASS TRANSFER; P-T CONDITIONS; POROSITY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); PREHNITE; PUMPELLYITE; REACTION KINETICS; WATER-ROCK INTERACTION; ZEOLITE;

ALPS; ARVIGO; CENTRAL ALPS; GRAUBUNDEN; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 79958128551     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-010-0583-2     Document Type: Article

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