Early Cambrian Asfar sequence

GeoArabia

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 137-160

  Al Husseini, Moujahed I ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a AAPG   (Bahrain)

^b ARABIAN GULF UNIVERSITY   (Bahrain)

^c SEG   (United States)

^d EAGE   (Bahrain)

^e Geological Society of London   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; EDIACARAN; PHANEROZOIC; PROTEROZOIC; SANDSTONE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SHALE; SILTSTONE; UNCONFORMITY;

IRAN; JORDAN; OMAN; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 77749239801     PISSN: 10256059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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