Changing fluid conditions during folding: An example from the central Appalachians

Tectonophysics

Volumn 576-577, Issue , 2012, Pages 99-115

  Evans, Mark A ^a   Bebout, Gray E ^b   Brown, Carolyn H ^b  

^a CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Appalachians; Fluid inclusions; Folding; Stable isotopes; Vein systems

Indexed keywords

APPALACHIANS; CARBONATE ROCK; CLASTIC ROCK; DEVONIANS; FLUID CONDITIONS; FLUID INCLUSION; FLUID RESERVOIRS; FLUID SYSTEMS; FLUID TEMPERATURES; FOLDING; FRACTURE CONNECTIVITY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MICROTHERMOMETRY; PORE FLUID PRESSURE; RECORD DYNAMICS; SOLUTION STRUCTURES; STABLE ISOTOPE DATA; STABLE ISOTOPES; STABLE-ISOTOPE ANALYSIS;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMMUNICATION; FRACTURE; METHANE; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; QUARTZ; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SHALE; STRATIGRAPHY;

ISOTOPES;

ANTICLINE; CARBONATE ROCK; CLASTIC ROCK; DEVONIAN; FLUID INCLUSION; FLUID PRESSURE; FOLDING; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MINERAL; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); QUARTZ VEIN; SALINITY; STABLE ISOTOPE; STRIKE (GEOLOGY);

APPALACHIANS;

EID: 84867898183     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.03.002     Document Type: Article

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