Windblown desert sands in coeval shallow marine deposits: A key for the recognition of coastal ergs in the mid-Cretaceous Iberian Basin, Spain

Terra Nova

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 314-320

  Rodríguez López, Juan Pedro ^a   de Boer, P L ^b   Melendez N ^a   Soria, A R ^c   Pardo, G ^c  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas   (Spain)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CRETACEOUS; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; ERG; GRAIN SIZE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PALEOLATITUDE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHALLOW WATER; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN BASIN; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33748878159     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2006.00695.x     Document Type: Article

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