Controls and evolution of facies patterns in the Upper Barremian-Albian Levant Platform in North Sinai and North Israel

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 341, Issue , 2010, Pages 99-131

  Bachmann, Martina ^a   Kuss, Jochen ^a   Lehmann, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONITE; APTIAN; ARABIAN PLATE; BARREMIAN; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CORRELATION; FACIES ANALYSIS; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; NORMAL FAULT; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STABLE ISOTOPE; TRANSECT; TRANSGRESSION;

EGYPT; ISRAEL; SINAI;

AMMONOIDEA; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 80053362589     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP341.6     Document Type: Article

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