Middle east geologic time scale 2011: Late ediacaran to early cambrian (infracambrian) jibalah group of Saudi Arabia

GeoArabia

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 69-90

  Al Husseini, Moujahed ^a  

^a Gulf PetroLink GeoArabia   (Bahrain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; EDIACARAN; LITHOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; PULL APART BASIN; ROCK; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

ARABIAN SHIELD; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 79960544156     PISSN: 10256059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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