Arabian orbital stratigraphy: Periodic second-order sequence boundaries?

GeoArabia

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 165-184

  Al Husseini, Moujahed ^a   Matthews, Robley K ^b  

^a Gulf PetroLink GeoArabia   (Bahrain)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORBITAL FORCING; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

ARABIAN PENINSULA; ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; WORLD;

EID: 17144424268     PISSN: 10256059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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