Fracture-controlled paleohydrogeology in a basement-cored, fault-related fold: Sheep Mountain Anticline, Wyoming, United States

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Beaudoin, Nicolas ^a   Bellahsen, Nicolas ^a   Lacombe, Olivier ^a   Emmanuel, Laurent ^a  

^a Sorbonne Universités   (France)

Author keywords

calcite veins; folding; fracture pattern; Laramide foreland; paleofluids; stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; BUILDINGS; CALCITE; CARBONATE MINERALS; FLUIDS; FRACTURE; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; MINERALOGY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; STRONTIUM; WOOL;

CALCITE VEINS; FOLDING; FRACTURE PATTERN; LARAMIDE; PALEOFLUIDS; STABLE ISOTOPES;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

ANTICLINE; BASEMENT ROCK; CALCITE; CARBON ISOTOPE; FLUID INCLUSION; FOLDING; FRACTURE NETWORK; GEOCHEMISTRY; HOST ROCK; HYDROGEOLOGY; MICROSTRUCTURE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; STABLE ISOTOPE; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

SHEEP MOUNTAIN [WYOMING]; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 79959761625     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GC003494     Document Type: Article

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