Cyclic palaeokarst surfaces in Aptian peritidal carbonate successions (Taurides, southwest Turkey): internal structure and response to mid-Aptian sea-level fall

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 814-827

  Yilmaz, Ismail Ömer ^a   Altiner, Demir ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Mantling breccia; Mid Aptian sea level fall; Milankovitch cycles; Palaeokarst; Peritidal carbonates; Taurides

Indexed keywords

APTIAN; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BRECCIA; CARBONATE; CYCLIC SEDIMENTATION; KARSTIFICATION; MICROFACIES; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; PALEOKARST; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

EURASIA; TAURIDES; TURKEY;

CHARACEAE; OSTRACODA;

EID: 33751101918     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: 1095998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2006.03.011     Document Type: Article

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