Stratigraphic note: Orbital-forcing calibration of the Late Cretaceous and Paleocene Aruma Formation, Saudi Arabia

GeoArabia

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 173-176

  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

CRETACEOUS; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCENE;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; SAUDI ARABIA; WORLD;

ARUMA;

EID: 22544443645     PISSN: 10256059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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