Sedimentary filling of a wedge-top basin and relationship with the foredeep (Middle Miocene Marnoso-arenacea Formation, northern Apennines)

Facies

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 479-498

  Conti, Stefano ^a   Fontana, Daniela ^a   Lucente, Corrado C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b ARPA Emilia Romagna   (Italy)

Author keywords

Delta feds and rich deposits; Facies analysis; Fan delta slope; Foredeep; Northern Apennines; Relative sea level change

Indexed keywords

BASIN FILL; DELTAIC DEPOSIT; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FACIES ANALYSIS; FAN DELTA; FOREARC BASIN; MIOCENE; PETROGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TECTONIC WEDGE;

ADRIATIC SEA; APENNINES; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

GORGONACEA;

EID: 51549120964     PISSN: 01729179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10347-008-0153-5     Document Type: Article

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