Bedrock lithology control on contemporaneous alluvial fan facies, Oligo-Miocene, southern Pyrenees, Spain

Sedimentology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 571-585

  Nichols, Gary ^a,b   Thompson, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

Author keywords

Alluvial fans; Bedrock lithology; Depositional processes; Ebro Basin; Tertiary

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; BEDROCK; FACIES ANALYSIS; LITHOLOGY; PROVENANCE; TERTIARY;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EBRO BASIN; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; WORLD;

EID: 20644439119     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2005.00711.x     Document Type: Article

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