Palynology of Middle Cretaceous-Tertiary sequence of Mersa Matruh-1 well, northern Western Desert, Egypt

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 209, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 79-104

  Mahmoud, Magdy S ^a  

^a Assiut University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY; FLORA; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TAXONOMY;

EGYPT; WESTERN DESERT;

EID: 0013688535     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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