Sedimentology, mineralogy, and implications of silicified evaporites in the Kromberg Formation, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 329, Issue , 1999, Pages 167-188

  Lowe, Donald R ^a   Worrell, Gail Fisher ^b,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MINERALS; PACKED BEDS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SODIUM BICARBONATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

ACICULAR CRYSTALLITES; BRECCIATED ROCKS; CRYSTAL AGGREGATES; EXTENSIONAL FAULTING; GREENSTONE BELTS; MARINE CONDITIONS; PRISMATIC CRYSTALS; UNDERLYING ROCKS;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

ARAGONITE; FLOODPLAIN; LITHOFACIES; MINERALOGY; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICIFICATION; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

BARBERTON GREENSTONE BELT;

EID: 84871248685     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2329-9.167     Document Type: Article

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