Jurassic-Cretaceous Arabian orbital stratigraphy: The AROS-JK chart

GeoArabia

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 89-94

  Al Husseini, Moujahed ^a   Matthews, Robley K ^a  

^a Arabian Orbital Stratigraphy

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Indexed keywords

ARABIAN PLATE; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; ORBITAL FORCING; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

EID: 39449108974     PISSN: 10256059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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