Provenance of multicycle quartz arenites of Pliocene age at Arcos, southwestern Spain

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 112, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 251-261

  Moral Cardona, J P ^a   Gutierrez Mas J M ^a   Sanchez Bellon A ^a   Lopez Aguayo F ^a   Caballero, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Multicycle; Provenance; Quartz arenites; Quartz grains; Surface features

Indexed keywords

ARENITE; PLIOCENE; PROVENANCE; QUARTZ GRAIN; SEDIMENTARY EVOLUTION; SEDIMENTARY PETROLOGY;

SPAIN, ANDALUCIA, CADIZ, ARCOS;

EID: 0031431080     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0037-0738(97)00040-7     Document Type: Article

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