Transgressive oversized radial ooid facies in the Late Jurassic Adriatic Platform interior: Low-energy precipitates from highly supersaturated hypersaline waters

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 550-556

  Husinec, Antun ^a   Read, J Fred ^b  

^a CROATIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Croatia)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adriatic Platform; Late Jurassic; Low energy; Platform interior parasequences; Radial ooids

Indexed keywords

ADRIATIC PLATFORM; PLATFORM-INTERIOR PARASEQUENCES; RADIAL OOIDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOLOGY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; SHORE PROTECTION;

GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS;

FACIES; HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENT; JURASSIC; OOID; SALINITY; TRANSGRESSION;

ADRIATIC SEA; CROATIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33646780593     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25864.1     Document Type: Article

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