Exhumation history of two high-pressure belts, Northern Venezuela, based on fluid inclusions in quartz and calcite veins

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 394, Issue , 2005, Pages 157-171

  Sisson, Virginia B ^a   Cardoso, Rebecca Kessler ^a,b   Harris, Caren Chaika ^a,c   Huang, Saijin ^a,d   Unger, Layla M ^a,e  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ENV America   (United States)

^c Occidental Oil and Gas Corporation   (United States)

^d CGG   (France)

^e Phillips Research Center 224GB   (United States)

Author keywords

Aqueous fluids; Exhumation; Fluid inclusions; Methane; Pressure temperature deformation path

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; DEFORMATION; METHANE; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); QUARTZ; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; TEMPERATURE;

AQUEOUS FLUIDS; EXHUMATION; FLUID INCLUSION; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; HOMOGENIZATION TEMPERATURES; LOW TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS; METAMORPHIC CONDITIONS; TEMPERATURE DEFORMATION;

MINERALOGY;

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CALCITE; COOLING; DECOMPRESSION; EXHUMATION; FLUID INCLUSION; HIGH PRESSURE; METAMORPHIC ROCK; OROGENY; QUARTZ; TEXTURE;

VENEZUELA;

CURA;

EID: 84874988688     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2394-9.157     Document Type: Article

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