Depositional architecture and transgressive-regressive cycles within Liassic backstepping carbonate ramps in the Basque-Cantabrian basin, northern Spain

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 162, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 531-548

  Quesada, Santiago ^a   Robles, Sergio ^b   Rosales, Idoia ^b  

^a REPSOL YPF   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carbonate ramps; Geochemistry; Lower Jurassic; Northern Spain; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE RAMP; GEOCHEMISTRY; JURASSIC; REGRESSION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHY; TRANSGRESSION;

BASQUE-CANTABRIAN BASIN; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; WORLD;

EID: 18844433626     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-764903-041     Document Type: Article

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