Birth and demise of a Middle Jurassic isolated shallow-marine carbonate platform on a tilted fault block: Example from the Southern Iberian continental palaeomargin

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 269-270, Issue , 2012, Pages 37-57

  Navarro, V ^a   Ruiz Ortiz, P A ^a   Molina, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carbonate platform; Hemipelagic sedimentation; Middle Jurassic; Subbetic; Tilted fault block

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PLATFORMS; FAULT BLOCKS; HEMIPELAGIC SEDIMENTATION; MIDDLE JURASSIC; SUBBETIC;

ACCIDENTS; CENTRIFUGATION; FERTILIZERS; ROCKS; TECTONICS;

LIMESTONE;

CARBONATE PLATFORM; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; JURASSIC; LIMESTONE; OOLITE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

ANDALUCIA; BIVALVIA; RADIOLARIA (PROTOZOANS); SERPULIDAE;

EID: 84863784820     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.05.017     Document Type: Article

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