A short regression during the Last Interglacial (5e) sea level highstand, along the reef coast of Egypt : A possible evidence for high-frequency glacio-eustatic variations during Pleistocene times?;Mise en évidence, sur la côte récifale d'Egypte, d'une régression interrompant brièvement le plus haut niveau du Dernier Interglaciaire (5e) : Un nouvel indice de variations glacio-eustatiques à haute fréquence au Pléistocène?

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 115-125

  Plaziat, Jean Claude ^a   Reyss, Jean Louis ^b   Choukri, Abdelmajid ^b,c   Orszag Sperber, Fabienne ^a   Baltzer, Frédéric ^a   Purser, Bruce Harold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c IBN TOFAIL UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Egypt; Glacio eustatism; Gypsum; Last Interglacial; Late Pleistocene; Reef; Th U

Indexed keywords

EUSTASY; LAST INTERGLACIAL; PLEISTOCENE;

EGYPT;

EID: 0031872609     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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