Long-term Callovian-Oxfordian sea-level changes and sedimentation in the Iberian carbonate platform (Jurassic, Spain): Possible eustatic implications

Basin Research

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 163-184

  Ramajo, Javier ^a   Aurell, Marc ^b  

^a INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALLOVIAN; CARBONATE PLATFORM; EUSTACY; FACIES ANALYSIS; LONG-TERM CHANGE; LOWSTAND; OXFORDIAN; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE; UNCONFORMITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN BASIN; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 44649120880     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2007.00348.x     Document Type: Article

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