Palustrine sedimentation in an episodically subsiding basin: The Miocene of the northern Teruel Graben (Spain)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 160, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 1-21

  Alonso Zarza, A M ^a   Calvo, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Climate; Lacustrine deposits; Miocene; Palaeosols; Tectonics; Teruel Graben

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MIOCENE; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY;

SPAIN;

VALLESIA;

EID: 0034237358     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(00)00041-9     Document Type: Article

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