Interaction of tectonics, eustasy, climate and carbonate production on the sedimentary evolution of an early/middle Jurassic extensional basin (Southern Provence Sub-basin, SE France)

Basin Research

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 125-152

  Léonide, Philippe ^a   Floquet, Marc ^a   Villier, Loïc ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CLIMATE EFFECT; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; EUSTACY; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; JURASSIC; RIFTING; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UPLIFT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; PROVENCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

BRACHIOPODA;

EID: 33847793105     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2007.00316.x     Document Type: Article

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