Biostratigraphy of the Lower Palaeozoic Haima Supergroup, Oman; its application in sequence stratigraphy and hydrocarbon exploration

GeoArabia

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 17-48

  Molyneux, Stewart ^a   Osterloff, Peter ^b   Penney, Randall ^c   Spaak, Pieter ^d  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b Projects Engineering   (Malaysia)

^c PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT OMAN   (Oman)

^d Shell

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOZOIC; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; OMAN;

ACRITARCHA;

EID: 33645157164     PISSN: 10256059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/geoarabia110217     Document Type: Article

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