Devonian Jauf Formation, Saudi Arabia: Orbital second-order depositional sequence 28

GeoArabia

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 53-70

  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

DEVONIAN; ORBITAL FORCING; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; SAUDI ARABIA;

PRAGIA;

EID: 33645141359     PISSN: 10256059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/geoarabia110253     Document Type: Article

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