Shallow lacustrine carbonate microfacies document orbitally paced lake-level history in the Miocene Teruel Basin (North-East Spain)

Sedimentology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 399-419

  Abels, Hemmo A ^a   Abdul Aziz, Hayfaa ^b,e   Calvo, José P ^c   Tuenter, Erik ^d,f  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

^d ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^e DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Astronomical forcing; Carbonate petrography; Climate modelling continental sediments; Cyclostratigraphy; Late Miocene; Spain

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE ROCK; CLIMATE MODELING; CYCLIC SEDIMENTATION; CYCLICITY; CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; FACIES ANALYSIS; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MICROFACIES; MIOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PETROGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

ARAGON; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; TERUEL BASIN; TERUEL [ARAGON];

EID: 58249142918     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2008.00976.x     Document Type: Article

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