Platform-basin transect of a Middle to Late Jurassic large-scale carbonate platform system (Shotori Mountains, Tabas area, east-central Iran)

Facies

Volumn , Issue 48, 2003, Pages 171-198

  Fürsich, Franz T ^a   Wilmsen, Markus ^a   Seyed Emami, Kazem ^b   Schairer, Gerhard ^c   Majidifard, Mahmoud R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c Bayerische Staatssammlung Palaontol   (Germany)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF IRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Carbonate platform system; East central Iran; Jurassic; Microfacies analysis; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PLATFORM; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FACIES ANALYSIS; JURASSIC; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; STRATIGRAPHY;

IRAN; SHOTORI MOUNTAINS;

IRANIA;

EID: 0038037705     PISSN: 01729179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02667538     Document Type: Article

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