Depositional facies and stratal geometry of an Upper Carboniferous prograding and aggrading high-relief carbonate platform (Cantabrian Mountains, N Spain)

Sedimentology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 267-295

  Della Porta, Giovanna ^a   Kenter, Jeroen A M ^a   Bahamonde, Juan R ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aggradation; Carbonate platform; Depositional architecture; Progradation; Spain; Upper Carboniferous

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CARBONIFEROUS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; PROGRADATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

CANTABRIAN MOUNTAINS; EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN MASSIF; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 2142771272     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.2003.00621.x     Document Type: Article

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