Subsidence modeling of the Arabian Platform from Permian to Paleogene outcrops

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 156, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 263-285

  Le Nindre, Yves Michel ^a   Vaslet, Denis ^a   Le Métour, Jöel ^a   Bertrand, Jocelyn ^b   Halawani, Mohammed ^c  

^a Bureau de Recherches Geol Minieres   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^c SAUDI GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Arabian Peninsula; Geodynamic evolution; Mesozoic; Permian; Quantitative subsidence; Tethyan margin

Indexed keywords

EUSTACY; MESOZOIC; PERMIAN; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

MIDDLE EAST; OMAN;

EID: 0037428995     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(02)00291-9     Document Type: Article

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