Provenance of fluvial sandstones at the start of late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous rifting in the Cameros Basin (N. Spain)

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 202, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 138-157

  González Acebrón, Laura ^a   Arribas, José ^a   Mas, Ramón ^a  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cameros Basin; Depositional sequences; Northern Spain; Sandstone provenance; Tithonian

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ALLUVIAL FAN; BASIN EVOLUTION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; FACIES; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; MUDSTONE; PROVENANCE; RIFTING; SANDSTONE; TITHONIAN;

CAMEROS BASIN; EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN CORDILLERA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 35548979380     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2007.05.008     Document Type: Article

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