Medium and coarsely crystalline dolomites in the Middle Devonian Ratner Formation, southern Saskatchewan, Canada: Origin and pore evolution

Carbonates and Evaporites

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 111-125

  Fu, Qilong ^a   Qing, Hairuo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dolomite; Geochemistry; Origin; Petrography; Porosity; Ratner Formation

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE ROCK; CARBONIFEROUS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRYSTALLIZATION; DEVONIAN; DOLOMITE; DOLOMITIZATION; IRON; LIMESTONE; MANGANESE; PETROGRAPHY; POROSITY; RECRYSTALLIZATION;

CANADA; SASKATCHEWAN;

EID: 80052481227     PISSN: 08912556     EISSN: 18785212     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13146-010-0038-x     Document Type: Article

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