Surfaces with a long history: The Aptian top Shu'aiba Formation unconformity, Sultanate of Oman

Sedimentology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 212-248

  Rameil, Niels ^a,d   Immenhauser, Adrian ^a   Csoma, Anita É ^b   Warrlich, Georg ^c  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b Subsurface Technology Group   (United States)

^c PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT OMAN   (Oman)

^d Neftex Petroleum Consultants Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbonates; Diagenesis; Discontinuity surface; Marine hardground; Relative sea level change; Subaerial exposure

Indexed keywords

DIAGENESIS; DISCONTINUITY SURFACES; MARINE HARDGROUND; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; SUBAERIAL EXPOSURE;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; CARBONATES; ISOTOPES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

STRATIGRAPHY;

APTIAN; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CARBONATE SYSTEM; DIAGENESIS; DISCONTINUITY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SHALLOW WATER; SUBAERIAL EXPOSURE;

OMAN;

EID: 84155171163     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2011.01279.x     Document Type: Article

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