Internal structure of segment reefs: Halimeda algal mounds in the Mediterranean Miocene

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 35-38

  Braga, Juan C ^a   Martín, José M ^a   Riding, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVEL; GEOLOGY;

DOWNSLOPE; HALIMEDA; HOLOCENES; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; LARGE BLOCKS; MIOCENE; UPPER MIOCENE;

REEFS;

ALGAL COMMUNITY; GRAVEL; HOLOCENE; LITHIFICATION; MIOCENE; REEF; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEGMENTATION; ALGAL MOUND; HALIMEDA; MESSINIAN;

ALMERIA [ANDALUCIA]; ANDALUCIA; SORBAS BASIN; SPAIN; ALMERIA;

EID: 0029773305     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0035:ISOSRH>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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