Late Miocene Halimeda alga-microbial segment reefs in the marginal Mediterranean Sorbas Basin, Spain

Sedimentology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 441-456

  Martín, José M ^a   Braga, Juan C ^a   Riding, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FACIES DISTRIBUTION; HALIMEDA; MIOCENE; PORITES; REEF; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

SPAIN, ANDALUCIA, ALMERIA, SORBAS BASIN;

EID: 0030766789     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.1997.d01-31.x     Document Type: Article

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