Interbasinal marker intervals-A case study from the Jurassic basins of Kachchh and Jaisalmer, western India

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1924-1931

  Pandey, Dhirendra Kumar ^a   Fürsich, Franz Theodor ^b,d   Sha, Jin Geng ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

India; Interbasinal correlation; Jurassic; Marker beds; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

BIOFACIES; CONTROLLING FACTORS; FLOODING ZONES; INDIAN CRATON; JURASSIC; MARKER BEDS; MESOZOIC; MICRITES; PALEOCLIMATES; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTARY UNITS; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONIC SETTINGS; TIME INTERVAL; TRANSGRESSIVE SYSTEMS TRACTS;

BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); DEPOSITS; LIMESTONE; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

STRATIGRAPHY;

BAJOCIAN; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; JURASSIC; MARKER BED; MESOZOIC; OXFORDIAN; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; SUCCESSION; TECTONIC SETTING; TRANSGRESSION;

GUJARAT; INDIA; JAISALMER BASIN; KUTCH; RAJASTHAN;

AMMONOIDEA; BIVALVIA;

EID: 77949352249     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: 18622801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-009-0158-0     Document Type: Article

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