Geochemistry, mineralogy, and paleoenvironments of deposition of the Oil Shale Member in the Negev

Israel Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 41-59

  Minster, Tsevi ^a   Yoffe, Olga ^a   Nathan, Yaacov ^a   Flexer, Akiva ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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