Sub-wavebase cross-bedded grainstones on a distally steepened carbonate ramp, Upper Miocene, Menorca, Spain

Sedimentology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 139-169

  Pomar, Luis ^a   Obrador, Antonio ^a   Westphal, Hildegard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Balearic islands; Carbonate ramp; Facies architecture; Sub wave base grainstones

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PLATFORM; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FACIES ANALYSIS; GRAINSTONE; MIOCENE;

BALEARIC ISLANDS; MINORCA; SPAIN;

EID: 0036199153     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.2002.00436.x     Document Type: Article

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