Magnetochronology of synorogenic Miocene foreland sediments in the Fars arc of the Zagros Folded Belt (SW Iran)

Basin Research

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 918-932

  Khadivi, Sh ^a,b   Mouthereau, F ^a,c   Larrasoana J C ^d   Verges J ^d   Lacombe, O ^a   Khademi, E ^e   Beamud, E ^d   Melinte Dobrinescu, M ^f   Suc, J P ^g  

^a Sorbonne Universités   (France)

^b National Geoscience Database of Iran   (Iran)

^c CRPG CNRS   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^e GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF IRAN   (Iran)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEO ECOLOGY GEOECOMAR   (Romania)

^g UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; DATING METHOD; DEFORMATION; DELTAIC DEPOSIT; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MIOCENE; OROGENIC BELT; SABKHA; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; SYNTECTONIC SEDIMENT; UNCONFORMITY;

FARS; IRAN; ZAGROS;

EID: 78651494823     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2009.00446.x     Document Type: Article

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