Filament lumachelle on top of Middle Jurassic oolite limestones: Event deposits marking the drowning of a Tethysian carbonate platform (Subbetic, southern Spain)

Facies

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 89-102

  Navarro, V ^a   Molina, J M ^a   Ruiz Ortiz, P A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bivalve (filament) accumulations; Crumpled storm deposits; Half graben; Platform drowning; Southern Spain; Subbetic

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; BIOCLASTIC SEDIMENT; CARBONATE PLATFORM; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FACIES; GRABEN; JURASSIC; LIMESTONE; OOLITE; STORM DEPOSIT; TETHYS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

BIVALVIA; PELMATOZOA;

EID: 58949094528     PISSN: 01729179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10347-008-0158-0     Document Type: Article

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