Exhumed channel sandstone networks within fluvial fan deposits from the Oligo-Miocene Caspe Formation, South-east Ebro Basin (North-east Spain)

Sedimentology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 162-189

  Cuevas martínez, Jose L ^a   Cabrera pérez, Lluis ^a   Marcuello, Alex ^a   Arbués cazo, Pau ^a   Marzo Carpio, Mariano ^a   Bellmunt, Fabia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fluvial fan; Fluvial sediments; Oligocene Miocene; Sedimentary architecture; Stream channels

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ALLUVIAL FAN; BRAIDED RIVER; DEPOSITION; EXHUMATION; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; LITHOFACIES; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; RIVER CHANNEL; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STREAM CHANNEL;

EBRO BASIN; SPAIN;

EID: 72549101373     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2009.01096.x     Document Type: Article

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