Channelized systems in an inner carbonate platform setting: Differentiation between incisions and tidal channels (Natih Formation, Late Cretaceous, Oman)

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 329, Issue , 2010, Pages 163-186

  Grelaud C ^a,b   Razin, P ^a   Homewood, P ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^c NONE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PLATFORM; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; DIAGENESIS; REGRESSION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TETHYS; TIDAL CHANNEL; TIDAL CURRENT;

ARABIAN SHIELD; OMAN; OMAN MOUNTAINS;

EID: 77956000880     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP329.8     Document Type: Article

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