Holocene sedimentary evolution and palaeocoastlines of the Lower Khuzestan plain (southwest Iran)

Marine Geology

Volumn 242, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 83-108

  Heyvaert, Vanessa Mary An ^a,b   Baeteman, Cecile ^a  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

lithological facies analyses; palaeogeography; Persian Gulf; relative sea level change; tidal environments

Indexed keywords

COASTLINE; PALAEOGEOGRAPHICAL RECONSTRUCTIONS; RELATIVE SEA-LEVEL CHANGE; TIDAL ENVIRONMENTS;

COASTAL ENGINEERING; ESTUARIES; LITHOLOGY; SEA LEVEL;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

AVULSION; COASTAL EVOLUTION; FACIES ANALYSIS; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; LITHOLOGY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARABIAN SEA; ASIA; EURASIA; INDIAN OCEAN; IRAN; JARRAHI RIVER; KARKHEH RIVER; KHUZESTAN; MIDDLE EAST; PERSIAN GULF; SHATT AL ARAB;

EID: 34447257192     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2007.01.008     Document Type: Article

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