Organic-rich facies in the sinemurian and pliensbachian of the Lusitanian basin, Portugal: Total organic carbon distribution and relation to transgressive-regressive facies cycles

Geologica Acta

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 325-340

  Duarte, L V ^a   Silva, R L ^a   Oliveira, L C V ^b   Comas Rengifo, M J ^c   Silva, F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b PETROBRAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d SGPS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Lower jurassic; Lusitanian basin; Organic rich marls; Palaeogeography; Sequence stratigraphy; TOC

Indexed keywords

MARL; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLIENSBACHIAN; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SINEMURIAN; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; LISBOA [PORTUGAL]; LUSITANIAN BASIN; PORTUGAL;

CAPRA IBEX;

EID: 79551599384     PISSN: 16956133     EISSN: 16965728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1344/105.000001536     Document Type: Article

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