Identification of early Llandovery (Silurian) anoxic palaeo-depressions at the western margin of the Murzuq Basin (southwest Libya), based on gamma-ray spectrometry in surface exposures

GeoArabia

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 101-118

  Fello, Nuri ^a   Lüning, Sebastian ^d   Štorch, Petr ^b   Redfern, Jonathan ^c  

^a Repsol Oil Company   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK SHALE; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETRY; GONDWANA; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; MELTING; OUTCROP; POSTGLACIAL REBOUND; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SOURCE ROCK;

AFRICA; ARABIAN PENINSULA; ASIA; EURASIA; LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA; MIDDLE EAST; MURZUQ BASIN; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 33745624840     PISSN: 10256059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/geoarabia1103101     Document Type: Article

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