Facies evolution and sequence chronostratigraphy of a "mid"-Cretaceous shallow-water carbonate succession of the Apulia Carbonate Platform from the northern Murge area (Apulia, southern Italy)

Facies

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 17-36

  Spalluto, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

"Mid" Cretaceous; Apulia Carbonate Platform; Murge area; Sequence chronostratigraphy; Shallow water carbonates; Southern Italy

Indexed keywords

BRECCIA; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; FACIES ANALYSIS; LITHOFACIES; OUTCROP; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SHALLOW WATER; UNCONFORMITY;

ITALY; MURGIA; PUGLIA;

EID: 84855287913     PISSN: 01729179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10347-011-0266-0     Document Type: Article

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