Sedimentary response to basin inversion: Mid cretaceous - early tertiary pre- to syndeformational deposition at the areif El Naqa anticline (Sinai, Egypt)

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Volumn , Issue 38, 1998, Pages 103-136

  Tuning, Sebastian ^a,d   Kuss, Jochen ^a   Bachmann, Martina ^b   Marzouk, Ahmed M ^c   Morsi, Ahmed M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b Lasmo Plc   (United Kingdom)

^c Tanta University   (Egypt)

^d Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Basin inversion; Calcareous nannofossils; Cretaceous; Paleogene; Planktonic foraminifera; Sequence stratigraphy; Sinai (Egypt); Stratigraphy; Syrian Arc

Indexed keywords

BASIN INVERSION; CRETACEOUS; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TERTIARY;

EID: 0345403564     PISSN: 01729179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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