Prominent facies from the Lower/Middle Cambrian of the Dead Sea area (Jordan) and their palaeodepositional significance;Faciès du Cambrien inférieur et moyen de la mer Morte (Jordanie); signification paléoenvironmentale

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 173, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 547-552

  Elicki, Olaf ^a   Schneider, Jörg ^a   Shinaq, Rafie ^b  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^b YARMOUK UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Burj Formation; Jordan; Lower Cambrian; Middle Cambrian

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CAMBRIAN; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FACIES ANALYSIS; LAGOON; PALEOENVIRONMENT;

(SOUTH); (WEST); DEAD SEA; JORDAN;

EID: 0036991350     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/173.6.547     Document Type: Article

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