The El-Ghab rift depression in Syria: Its structure, stratigraphy, and history of development

Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 362-374

  Devyatkin, E V ^a   Dodonov, A E ^a   Sharkov, E V ^b   Zykin, V S ^c   Simakova, A N ^a   Khatib, K ^d   Nseir, H ^d  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^c SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

^d General Establishment of Geology and Mineral Resources   (Syrian Arab Republic)

Author keywords

Correlation; Graben; Magmatism; Rift; Stratigraphy; Transgression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000343017     PISSN: 08695938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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