Architectural complexity of a carbonate transgressive systems tract induced by basement physiography

Sedimentology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1815-1848

  Mateu Vicens, Guillem ^a   Pomar, Luis ^a   Tropeano, Marcello ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Architecture; Carbonates; Foraminifer; Platform; Plio Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; BOTTOM CURRENT; CARBONATE PLATFORM; FORAMINIFERA; GLACIOEUSTACY; HORST; LITHOFACIES; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; PROGRADATION; TECTONIC SETTING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

BASILICATA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MATERA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

FORAMINIFERA; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 56349092516     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2008.00968.x     Document Type: Article

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