Late Oligocene lacustrine deposition of the Sodmin Formation, Abu Hammad Basin, Red Sea, Egypt: Sedimentology and factors controlling palustrine carbonates

Journal of African Earth Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 567-592

  Mahran, Tawfiq M ^a  

^a SOUTH VALLEY UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FACIES; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; OLIGOCENE; SEDIMENTATION;

EGYPT;

EID: 0033208445     PISSN: 08995362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-5362(99)00116-5     Document Type: Article

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