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ANHYDRITIC DOLOMITE [1 record]

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Record 1 2010-12-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
CONT

The producing reservoirs consist of phylloid-algal buildups in the Ismay zone flanked by bryozoan mounds and mound flank debris. These porous mounds, capped by impermeable anhydritic dolomite, produce primarily from porous phylloid-algal limestones, some of which have been dolomitized. ... anhydritic dolomite ... has abundant microporosity but very little permeability.

CONT

The Late Miocene oil-producing Nestos-Prinos basin is located between Thassos island and the mainland. ... The basin is filled with Late Miocene-Pliocene sediments, including ubiquitously repeated evaporite layers of rock salt and anhydrite-dolomite which alternate with sandstones, conglomerates, black shales, and uraniferous coal measures ...

OBS

anhydritic dolomite: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

Key term(s)
  • anhydrite dolomite

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
OBS

dolomie à anhydrite : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

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