Subsurface stratigraphy and micropaleontology of the Neogene rocks, Nile Delta, Egypt

Geologia Croatica

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-26

  Ismail, Ahmed A ^a   Boukhary, Mohamed ^a   Naby, Ahmed I Abdel ^a  

^a Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Egypt; Forarninifera; Neogene; Nile Delta; North Abu Qir area; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; FORAMINIFERA; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; NEOGENE; PALEOECOLOGY;

EGYPT; NILE DELTA;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 77955650345     PISSN: 1330030X     EISSN: 13334875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4154/gc.2010.01     Document Type: Article

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