Early to mid-Cretaceous mixed carbonate-clastic shelfal systems: Examples, issues and models from the Arabian Plate

GeoArabia

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 541-598

  Davies, Roger B ^a   Casey, David M ^a   Horbury, Andrew D ^a   Sharland, Peter R ^a   Simmons, Michael D ^a  

^a Neftex Petroleum Consultants Ltd   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIAN PLATE; CARBONATE SYSTEM; CRETACEOUS; FLOODING; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 0036291651     PISSN: 10256059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/geoarabia0703541     Document Type: Article

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