Paleokarst in the Lower Ordovician Beekmantown Group, Ottawa Embayment: structural control inboard of the Appalachian orogen

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 110, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1046-1059

  Dix, George R ^a,b,c   Robinson, George W ^a,b,c   Colin McGregor, D ^a,b,c  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; DISSOLUTION; POROSITY; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

APPALACHIAN OROGEN; GEOLOGIC HISTORY; LATE PALEOZOIC; LOWER ORDOVICIAN; PLATFORM DEVELOPMENT; POROSITY DEVELOPMENT; SHALLOW SUBSURFACE; STRUCTURAL CONTROL;

MINERALOGY;

ORDOVICIAN; PALEOKARST;

CANADA;

EID: 84879880133     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1998)110<1046:PITLOB>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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