Cycle stacking and long-term sea-level history in the lower cretaceous (Gavrovo platform, NW Greece)

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 723-736

  Grotsch J ^a  

^a SHELL RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION;

CARBONATE PLATFORMS; DIAGENETIC ALTERATION; EUSTATIC SEA LEVEL; GREENHOUSE CLIMATES; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; SEA-LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS; SHALLOW WATER CARBONATES; STACKING PATTERNS;

SEA LEVEL;

CARBONATE PLATFORM; CRETACEOUS; CYCLIC SEDIMENTATION; PERITIDAL DEPOSIT; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STACKING PATTERN;

GREECE, GAVROVO PLATFORM;

EID: 0030470509     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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