A new upper Oligocene marine record from northern Sinai (Egypt) and its paleogeographic context

GeoArabia

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 59-84

  Kuss, Jochen ^a   Boukhary, Mohamed A ^b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBONATE ROCK; DEPOSITION; LIMESTONE; MARINE SEDIMENT; MICROFACIES; OLIGOCENE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SANDSTONE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; TRANSGRESSION;

AFRICA; EGYPT; NORTH AFRICA; SINAI;

ANTHOZOA; BIVALVIA; BRYOZOA; CORALLINACEAE; FORAMINIFERA; ROTALIIDAE;

EID: 39449112226     PISSN: 10256059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/geoarabia130159     Document Type: Article

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