Callovian-Oxfordian (Middle-Upper Jurassic) microplankton and miospores from the Masajid Formation, WX1 borehole, El Maghara area, North Sinai, Egypt: Biostratigraphy and palaeoenvironmental interpretations

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 204, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 379-398

  El Beialy, Salah Y ^a   Ibrahim, Mohamed I A ^b  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b QATAR UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BOREHOLE; CALLOVIAN; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROPLANKTON; MIOSPORE; NANOFOSSIL; OXFORDIAN; PALEOENVIRONMENT;

EGYPT; SHAMAL SINA;

EID: 0042722727     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/204/1997/379     Document Type: Article

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