Depositional geometries and facies associations in an upper cretaceous prograding carbonate platform margin (Orfento supersequence, Maiella, Italy)

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 749-765

  Mutti, Maria ^a   Bernoulli, Daniel ^a   Eberli, Gregor P ^b   Vecsei, Adam ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PLATFORM; CRETACEOUS; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

ITALY, ABRUZZI, MAIELLA PLATFORM;

SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CARBONATE PLATFORMS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FORCED REGRESSION; PELAGIC SEDIMENTS; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; SEA-LEVEL CYCLES; SEQUENCE DISTRIBUTION; WATER EQUIVALENT;

DEPOSITION;

EID: 0030482777     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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