Late Neogene sedimentary and tectonostratigraphic evolution of northwestern Crete island, Greece

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 202, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 287-311

  Kontopoulos, Nikolaos ^a   Zelilidis, Abraham ^a   Frydas, Dimitris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN ANALYSIS; DESICCATION; GYPSUM; LIMESTONE; NANOFOSSIL; NEOGENE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTATION; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; CRETE [GREECE]; GREECE;

TORTONIA; ZANCLEA;

EID: 0000347028     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/202/1996/287     Document Type: Article

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