Major controls on sedimentation during the evolution of a continental basin: Pliocene-Pleistocene of the Guadix Basin (Betic Cordillera, southern Spain)

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 219, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 97-114

  Pla Pueyo, Sila ^a,b   Gierlowski Kordesch, Elizabeth H ^c   Viseras, César ^a   Soria, Jesús M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

^c OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Campus de San Vicente Del Raspeig   (Spain)

Author keywords

Base level; Continental carbonates; Paleoclimate; Palustrine; Tectonism

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; FLUVIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

ANDALUCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GRANADA [ANDALUCIA]; GUADIX BASIN; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 67651160318     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2009.05.001     Document Type: Article

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