Chapter 26 Distribution Pattern and Provenance Implications of the Heavy Minerals in Neoproterozoic to Mesozoic Siliciclastic Successions in the Arabo-Nubian Shield and its Northern Periphery: A Review

Developments in Sedimentology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2007, Pages 647-676

  Weissbrod, Tuvia ^a   Bogoch, Ron ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Arabo Nubian Shield; authigenesis; Early Cretaceous; heavy minerals; Neoproterozoic; Palaeozoic; Pan African; provenance

Indexed keywords

EID: 44349174819     PISSN: 00704571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-4571(07)58026-X     Document Type: Review

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