Lower Cretaceous carbonate platform of the eastern Levant (Galilee and the Golan Heights): stratigraphy and second-order sea-level change

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 487-512

  Bachmann, Martina ^a   Hirsch, Francis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Carbonate platform; Eastern Levant; Lower Cretaceous; Orbitolinids; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

ARABIAN PLATE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; FACIES ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TIDAL FLAT;

ASIA; EURASIA; GALILEE; GOLAN HEIGHTS; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; NORTHERN DISTRICT; OCCUPIED TERRITORIES;

FORAMINIFERA; ORBITOLINIDAE;

EID: 33745875035     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: 1095998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2005.09.003     Document Type: Article

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