Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy from outcrops of the Kribi-Campo sub-basin: Lower Mundeck Formation (Lower Cretaceous, southern Cameroon)

Journal of African Earth Sciences

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-18

  Ntamak Nida, Marie Joseph ^a   Bourquin, Sylvie ^b   Makong, Jean Claude ^a   Baudin, François ^c   Mpesse, Jean Engelbert ^a   Ngouem, Christophe Itjoko ^a   Komguem, Paul Bertrand ^a   Abolo, Guy Martin ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DOUALA   (Cameroon)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d Société Nationale des Hydrocarbures   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

Alluvial to delta lacustrine environments; Early drift period; Kribi Campo sub basin; Lower Cretaceous; Lower Mundeck Formation; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

ALBIAN; ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; APTIAN; CLIMATE VARIATION; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FACIES ANALYSIS; FAN DELTA; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LITHOLOGY; OUTCROP; PALEOCLIMATE; PROGRADATION; RETROGRESSION; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONIC SETTING;

CAMEROON;

EID: 77956878751     PISSN: 1464343X     EISSN: 1464343X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2010.01.004     Document Type: Article

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