Chalcedony vein horizons and clastic dikes in the White River Group as products of diagenetically driven deformation

Lithosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 167-186

  Maher, Harmon ^a   Shuster, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPACTION; DEFORMATION; DEWATERING; FLOW OF FLUIDS; RIVERS; SILICA;

CLASTICS; FINE GRAINED; FINE-GRAINED SEDIMENT; MARINE STRATA; MULTIPLE LEVELS; NORMAL FAULT SYSTEM; SILICA PHASIS; SMECTITE CLAYS; SYNAERESIS; VEIN FORMATION;

LEVEES;

CHALCEDONY; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DIAGENESIS; DIKE; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; FOLD; OUTCROP; STRATABOUND DEPOSIT; SYNCHRONY; VEIN (GEOLOGY);

UNITED STATES; WHITE RIVER [UNITED STATES];

EID: 84863423194     PISSN: 19418264     EISSN: 19474253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/L187.1     Document Type: Article

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