A Neoproterozoic glacially influenced basin margin succession and 'atypical' cap carbonate associated with bedrock palaeovalleys, Mirbat area, southern Oman

Basin Research

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 471-496

  Rieu, Ruben ^a,b   Allen, P A ^b,c   Etienne, J L ^b,d   Cozzi, A ^b,e   Wiechert, U ^f  

^a REPSOL YPF   (Spain)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Neftex Petroleum Consultants Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^e ENI S P A   (Italy)

^f FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CARBONATE; DEGLACIATION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; MARGINAL BASIN; PROTEROZOIC; STRATIGRAPHY;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; OMAN;

BELEMNOIDEA;

EID: 33845356460     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2006.00304.x     Document Type: Article

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