Sedimentology and high-resolution sequence stratigraphy of the late middle to late Miocene Angostura Formation (western Borbón Basin, northwestern Ecuador)

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 164, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 653-665

  Cantalamessa, Gino ^a   Di Celma, Claudio ^a,b   Ragaini, Luca ^c   Valleri, Gigliola ^d   Landini, Walter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; GLACIOEUSTACY; MIOCENE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TRANSGRESSION;

ANGOSTURA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 34248163443     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492006-001     Document Type: Article

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