Sabkha cycles, stacking patterns and controls: Gachsaran (Lower Fars/Fatha) Formation, Miocene, Mesopotamian Basin, Iraq

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 214, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 45-69

  Tucker, Maurice E ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FORELAND BASIN; GLACIOEUSTACY; GRAINSTONE; MIOCENE; MUDSTONE; SABKHA; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STROMATOLITE; STRUCTURAL CONTROL;

IRAQ; MESOPOTAMIAN BASIN;

EID: 0043265941     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/214/1999/45     Document Type: Article

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