Stratigraphic organisation of the Jurassic sequence in Interior Oman, Arabian Peninsula

GeoArabia

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 17-50

  Rousseau, Mathieu ^a   Dromart, Gilles ^a   Droste, Henk ^b,c   Homewood, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^c Carbonate Development Team   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JURASSIC; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

ARABIAN PENINSULA; ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; OMAN;

EID: 30344446240     PISSN: 10256059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/geoarabia110117     Document Type: Article

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