Sedimentary model and high-frequency cyclicity in a Mediterranean, shallow-shelf, temperate-carbonate environment (uppermost Miocene, Agua Amarga Basin, Southern Spain)

Sedimentology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 263-277

  Martín, José M ^a   Braga, Juan C ^a   Betzler, Christian ^b   Brachert, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE RAMP; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; MIOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA LEVEL VARIATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SHALLOW MARINE ENVIRONMENT;

SPAIN, AGUA AMARGA BASIN;

EID: 0029768656     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.1996.d01-4.x     Document Type: Article

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