Paleoenvironmental significance of Cambrian hiatal shell accumulations in an aborted intra-cratonic rift, Atlas Mountains, Morocco

Special Paper - Geological Association of Canada

Volumn , Issue 48, 2008, Pages 39-54

  Álvaro, Jose Javier ^a,b   Clausen, Sébastien ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DEPOSITION; EVENT STRATIGRAPHY; INTRACRATONIC BASIN; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEAFLOOR; SHELL; VOLCANISM;

AFRICA; ATLAS MOUNTAINS; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA; SOUSS BASIN; SOUSS-MASSA-DRAA;

EID: 59649089329     PISSN: 00721042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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