Nature, provenance and relationships of Early Miocene Palaeovalley fills, northern Adana Basin, Turkey: Their significance for sediment-bypassing on a carbonate shelf

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 181-209

  Derman, A Sami ^a   Gürbüz, Kemal ^b  

^a TURKISH PETROLEUM CORPORATION   (Turkey)

^b CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Adana Basin; Alluvial fan; Palaeovalley; Sediment bypassing; Sequence stratigraphy; Submarine fan

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LIMESTONE; MELANGE; MIOCENE; NEOGENE; PALEOTOPOGRAPHY; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; SUBMARINE FAN; TRANSGRESSION;

ADANA BASIN; EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 34249811771     PISSN: 13000985     EISSN: 1303619X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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