A coarsening-upward megasequence generated by a Gilbert-type fan-delta in a tectonically controlled context (Upper Miocene, Guadix-Baza Basin, Betic Cordillera, southern Spain)

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 105, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 191-202

  Fernandez J ^a   Guerra Merchan A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAN DELTA; GILBERT TYPE SEQUENCE; MIOCENE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

SPAIN, BETIC CORDILLERA, GUADIX-BAZA BASIN;

EID: 0030470334     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0037-0738(95)00137-9     Document Type: Article

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