Depositional environments and facies of the Late Triassic Abu Ruweis Formation, Jordan

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 4-6, 2006, Pages 372-384

  Makhlouf, Issa M ^a   El Haddad, Abdel Aziz ^b  

^a HASHEMITE UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^b SOHAG UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Abu Ruweis; Cyclicity; Evaporites; Jordan; Salina; Triassic

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; EVAPORITE; FACIES ANALYSIS; GYPSUM; HIGHSTAND; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LIMESTONE; LOWSTAND; MUDSTONE; PETROGRAPHY; SYSTEMS TRACT; TRACE ELEMENT; TRIASSIC; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ASIA; EURASIA; JORDAN; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 33751315049     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2005.10.017     Document Type: Article

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