Creation of Secondary Porosity in Dolostones by Upwelling Basement Water in the Foreland of the Alpine Orogen

Figure 3

Schematic erosional history along a NW–SE section through the Black Forest Highlands. Middle Miocene exhumation of the Mesozoic (including basal Triassic) sequences and the crystalline basement provided recharge areas for meteoric water (modified after Thury et al. [12]).

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