Geometries of reef advance in response to relative sea-level changes in a Messinian (uppermost Miocene) fringing reef (Cariatiz reef, Sorbas Basin, SE Spain)

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 61-81

  Braga, J C ^a   Martin J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC SEDIMENTATION; FACIES; FACIES DISTRIBUTION; MESSINIAN; MIOCENE; REEF; REEFS; SEA LEVEL VARIATION; SEA LEVEL VARIATIONS;

SPAIN, ANDALUCIA, ALMERIA, SORBAS BASIN;

EID: 0030438844     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(96)00019-X     Document Type: Article

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