Biostratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous Sequence of the Gebel Musabaa Salama area, Southwest Sinai, Egypt

Arab Gulf Journal of Scientific Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 63-78

  Kassab, Ahmed S ^a   Ismael, Mostafa M ^b  

^a Assiut University   (Egypt)

^b Egyptian Mineral Resources Authority   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CENOMANIAN; CRETACEOUS; SANTONIAN; TURONIAN; UNCONFORMITY;

EGYPT, SINAI, GEBEL MUSABAA SALAMA;

EID: 0030303912     PISSN: 19859899     EISSN: 25360051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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