Fossiliferous intervals and sequence boundaries in shallow marine, fan-deltaic deposits (early Eocene, southern Pyrenees, Spain)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 121, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 147-168

  Molenaar, N ^a,c   Martinius, A W ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c Terra Res (Molenaar and Clemente)   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; DEPOCENTRE SHIFT; EOCENE; FAN DELTA; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

SPAIN, PYRENEES;

EID: 0029750089     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-0182(95)00073-9     Document Type: Article

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