Tertiary planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy and paleobathymetry at Gebel Withr, southwestern Sinai, Egypt

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 209, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 323-348

  Shahin, Abdallah ^a  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; OLIGOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; TERTIARY;

EGYPT; SINAI;

EID: 0006639593     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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