Dolomite characteristics and diagenetic model of the Calcari Grigi Group (Asiago Plateau, Southern Alps - Italy): An example of multiphase dolomitization

Sedimentology

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1347-1369

  Di Cuia, Raffaele ^a   Riva, Alberto ^a   Scifoni, Andrea ^a   Moretti, Alessandro ^b   Spötl, Christoph ^c   Caline, Bruno ^d  

^a GE Plan Consulting   (Italy)

^b Faculty of Geo and Atmospheric Sciences ^*  (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d CSTJF   (France)

Author keywords

Alps; Diagenesis; Dolomitization; Isotopes; Outcrops

Indexed keywords

ALPS; BURIAL HISTORY; CALCITE PRECIPITATION; CALCITE-CEMENT; CARBONATE PLATFORMS; CONFINED SYSTEMS; DIAGENESIS; DIAGENETIC EVOLUTION; DIAGENETICS; DOLOMITE CRYSTALS; DOLOMITIZATION; EVOLUTIONARY TREND; FAULT NETWORKS; FLUID INCLUSION; FLUID MIXING; FRACTURE NETWORK; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HYDROGEOLOGICAL; INFILLING; JURASSIC; NORTHERN ITALY; OUTCROPS; PETROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; POROSITY REDUCTION; STUDY AREAS; THIN SECTION; UNIMODAL;

CALCITE; CARBONATE MINERALS; CEMENTS; CRYSTALS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; ISOTOPES; LUMINESCENCE; MINERALOGY; POROSITY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

FLUIDS;

CALCITE; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CATHODOLUMINESCENCE; DIAGENESIS; DOLOMITE; DOLOMITIZATION; FLUID INCLUSION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; JURASSIC; OUTCROP; POROSITY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHERN ALPS;

EID: 80052877283     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2010.01212.x     Document Type: Article

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