Stable-isotope geochemistry of syntectonic veins in Paleozoic carbonate rocks in the Livingstone Range anticlinorium and their significance to the thermal and fluid evolution of the southern Canadian foreland thrust and fold belt

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 95, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1851-1882

  Cooley, Michael A ^a   Price, Raymond A ^a   Kyser, T Kurtis ^a   Dixon, John M ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; CALCITE; CARBONATION; DEFORMATION; EXPLORATORY GEOCHEMISTRY; FAULTING; HYDROCARBONS; ISOTOPES; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); SOLVENTS;

EQUILIBRIUM TEMPERATURES; FORMATION FLUIDS; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; STABLE ISOTOPES; STRUCTURAL TRAPS; SYN-TECTONIC VEINS; THERMAL MATURATION; WESTERN CANADA SEDIMENTARY BASINS;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

BASEMENT ROCK; BELEMNITE; DECOLLEMENT; DEVONIAN; DOLOMITE; FLUID FLOW; FOLD BELT; FORELAND BASIN; GEOCHEMISTRY; HOST ROCK; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; JURASSIC; METEORIC WATER; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SOURCE ROCK; SPHALERITE; STABLE ISOTOPE; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; SYNTECTONIC SEDIMENT; THERMAL EVOLUTION; THERMAL MATURITY; THRUST FAULT; TRAP (GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE); VEIN (GEOLOGY);

CANADA;

BELEMNOIDEA;

EID: 81755171144     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/01271107098     Document Type: Article

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