Integrating outcrop data and forward computer modelling to unravel the development of a Messinian carbonate platform in SE Spain (Sorbas Basin)

Sedimentology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 423-441

  Cuevas Castell, José M ^a,b   Betzler, Christian ^a,b   Rössler, Jochen ^c   Hüssner, Hansmartin ^c   Peinl, Mark ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b Department of Earth Sciences ^*  (Spain)

^c Geologisch Palaontologisches Inst   (Germany)

Author keywords

3 D computer simulation; Carbonate platform; Messinian; SE Spain; Sea level fluctuations; Sorbas basin

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CARBONATE PLATFORM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEEP SEA; FAN DELTA; MESSINIAN; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; OUTCROP; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UPLIFT;

ALMERIA [ANDALUCIA]; ANDALUCIA; BETIC CORDILLERA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SORBAS BASIN; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 33947256854     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2006.00843.x     Document Type: Article

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