Facies and depositional environment of the Holocene evaporites in the Ras Shukeir area, Gulf of Suez, Egypt

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 110, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 123-145

  Aref, M A M ^a   Attia, O E A ^a   Wali, A M A ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Coastal lagoons; Depositional environment; Facies; Gulf of Suez; Holocene evaporites; Ras Shukeir; Sabkhas

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EVAPORITE; FACIES DISTRIBUTION; HOLOCENE; SABKHA;

EGYPT, RAS SHUKEIR;

EID: 0030812986     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(96)00080-2     Document Type: Article

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