Development of carbonate platforms on an extensional (rifted) margin: the Valanginian-Albian record of the Prebetic of Alicante (SE Spain)

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 29, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 848-860

  Castro, J M ^a   de Gea, G A ^a   Ruiz Ortiz, P A ^a   Nieto, L M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carbonate platform; Early Cretaceous; Extensional tectonics; Prebetic; Spain; Transgressive regressive cycles

Indexed keywords

ALBIAN; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT; GEODYNAMICS; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION; SHALLOW WATER; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE; VALANGINIAN;

ALICANTE [COMUNIDAD VALENCIA]; COMUNIDAD VALENCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 53549088051     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: 1095998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2008.05.012     Document Type: Article

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