The nature and origin of Upper Cretaceous basin-margin rudist buildups of the Mesopotamian Basin, southern Iraq, with consideration of possible hydrocarbon stratigraphic entrapment

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 213-224

  Sadooni, Fadhil N ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Albian; Arabian Plate; Cenomanian; Cretaceous; Dujaila Field; Iraq; Mesopotamian Basin; Mishrif

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; RESERVOIR ROCK;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; IRAQ; MESOPOTAMIAN BASIN; MIDDLE EAST; WORLD;

ALBIA; HIPPURITOIDA;

EID: 17444419349     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2004.11.016     Document Type: Article

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