Holocene marine terraces on two salt diapirs in the Persian Gulf, Iran: Age, depositional history and uplift rates

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 843-857

  Bruthans, Jiří ^a   Filippi, Michal ^b   Geršl, Milan ^b   Zare, Mohammad ^c   Melková, Jaroslava ^a   Pazdur, Anna ^d   Bosák, Pavel ^b,e  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^d SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^e KARST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Holocene transgression; Marine terrace; Persian Gulf; Radiocarbon age; Salt diapir; Uplift rate

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DIAPIR; HOLOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION; TERRACE; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE; UPLIFT;

ARABIAN SEA; ASIA; EURASIA; INDIAN OCEAN; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST; PERSIAN GULF;

EID: 33845335179     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1007     Document Type: Article

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