Halul and Sharao islands, offshore Qatar: Remnants of the great infracambrian Hormuz Salt basin

Carbonates and Evaporites

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 17-27

  Sadooni, Fadhil N ^a   Al Saad, Hamad ^b   Nasir, Sobhi J ^b  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b QATAR UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANHYDRITE; DIAPIRISM; DOLOMITE; IGNEOUS ROCK; ISLAND; SALT TECTONICS;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; QATAR;

EID: 3142534606     PISSN: 08912556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03175193     Document Type: Article

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