Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Lower Cretaceous Amir Formation in Israel and Sinai: A marine clastic deposit with tidal channels

Israel Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 79-93

  Weissbrod, Tuvia ^a   Sneh, Amihai ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

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