Ascending freshwater-mesohaline mixing: A new scenario for dolomitization

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 277-283

  Li, Zhaoqi ^a   Goldstein, Robert H ^a   Franseen, Evan K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; MINERALOGY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SEAWATER;

ASCENDING FLOW; DOLOMITIZATION; FLUID INCLUSION; FLUID INCLUSION DATA; PALEOTOPOGRAPHY; SALINE FLUIDS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; UPPER MIOCENE;

MIXING;

CATHODOLUMINESCENCE; DIAGENESIS; DOLOMITIZATION; ESTUARINE FRONT; FLUID INCLUSION; HYDROGEOLOGY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MIOCENE; PALEOTOPOGRAPHY; PETROGRAPHY; RECRYSTALLIZATION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 84876702497     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2013.24     Document Type: Article

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