Facies architecture of an isolated carbonate platform in the Hawasina Basin: The Late Triassic Jebel Kawr of Oman

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 252, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 270-280

  Bernecker, Michaela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Isolated platform; Late Triassic; Neo Tethys; Oman Mountains; Reef development

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PLATFORM; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; FACIES; MASS EXTINCTION; REEF; TETHYS; TRIASSIC;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; OMAN; OMAN MOUNTAINS;

EID: 34547213760     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.11.054     Document Type: Article

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