The eroded Late Jurassic Kurbnesh carbonate platform in the Mirdita Ophiolite Zone of Albania and its bearing on the Jurassic orogeny of the Neotethys realm

Swiss Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 125-138

  Schlagintweit, Felix ^a   Gawlick, Hans Jürgen ^a   Missoni, Sigrid ^a   Hoxha, Lirim ^b   Lein, Richard ^c   Frisch, Wolfgang ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^b Geological Survey of Albania   (Albania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Albania; Carbonate platform; Early Cretaceous; Kimmeridian orogeny; Late Jurassic; Mirdita Zone; Neotethys

Indexed keywords

APTIAN; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CLAST; EROSION; FACIES; JURASSIC; MASS MOVEMENT; OPHIOLITE; OROGENY; SHALLOW WATER; STRATIGRAPHY; TETHYS; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS; IMBRICATION; THRUST;

ALBANIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; MIRDITA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ALGAE; CODONELLOPSIDAE; FORAMINIFERA; MUNELLA;

EID: 49949118597     PISSN: 16618726     EISSN: 16618734     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00015-008-1254-4     Document Type: Article

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