Depositional sequences in deep-shelf environments formed through carbonate-mud import from the shallow platform (late Oxfordian, German Swabian Alb and eastern Swiss Jura)

Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 149-169

  Pittet, Bernard ^b   Strasser, André ^a  

^a Institut de Geologie   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

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CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; MARINE SEDIMENT; OXFORDIAN; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

GERMANY; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0031694867     PISSN: 00129402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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