Biostratigraphy of the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary in the Sirwan Valley (Sulaimani Region, Kurdistan, NE Iraq)

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 381-396

  Sharbazheri, Khalid ^a   Ghafor, Imad ^a   Muhammed, Qahtan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SULAIMANI   (Iraq)

^b NORTHERN TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Iraq)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Cretaceous tertiary boundary; Iraq; Kurdistan region; Sulaimani

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BIOZONATION; CLASTIC SEDIMENT; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; FLYSCH; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; OUTCROP; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAN; KORDESTAN; MIDDLE EAST; SIRVAN BASIN;

EID: 70549087964     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10096-009-0028-x     Document Type: Article

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