Architecture of a bench-type carbonate lake margin and its relation to fluvially dominated deltas, Las Minas Basin, Upper Miocene, Spain

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 240-254

  Calvo, Jose P ^a   Gomez Gras, David ^b   Alonso Zarza, Ana M ^a   Jimenez, Sergio ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; FERTILIZERS; LAKES; SPACE PLATFORMS;

ACCOMMODATION SPACE; DELTAIC DEPOSITS; DEPOSITIONAL CONDITION; EVOLUTIONARY TREND; INTERNAL GEOMETRY; STEEP GRADIENTS; SUBAQUEOUS DELTA; UPPER BOUNDARY;

CARBONATION;

CARBONATE SEDIMENT; DELTAIC SEDIMENTATION; FLUVIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MIOCENE; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE;

SPAIN;

EID: 12944300929     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/2DC4090E-0E47-11D7-8643000102C1865D     Document Type: Article

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