Nearshore, temperate, carbonate depositional systems (lower Tortonian, Agua Amarga Basin, southern Spain): Implications for carbonate sequence stratigraphy

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 113, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 27-53

  Betzler, C ^a   Brachert, T C ^b   Braga, J C ^c   Martin, J M ^c  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bryozoan limestones; Sequence stratigraphy; Spain; Temperate carbonates; Tortonian

Indexed keywords

LIMESTONE; MIOCENE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TORTONIAN;

EID: 0031459075     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(97)00054-7     Document Type: Article

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