Sequence architecture and carbonate platform configuration (Late Cenomanian-Santonian), Sinai, Egypt

Sedimentology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 387-414

  Bauer, Jan ^a   Kuss, Jochen ^a   Steuber, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbonate platform; Palaeogeographic maps; Sequence stratigraphy; Upper Cretaceous

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PLATFORM; CRETACEOUS; MAPPING; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

EGYPT; SINAI;

EID: 0037489507     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.2003.00549.x     Document Type: Article

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