Stacked, Lower Miocene tide-dominated estuary deposits in a transgressive succession, Western Desert, Egypt

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 282, Issue , 2012, Pages 241-255

  Hassan, Safiya M ^a,b,c   Steel, Ronald J ^b   El Barkooky, Ahmed ^d   Hamdan, Mohamed ^d   Olariu, Cornel ^b   Helper, Mark A ^b  

^a BENI SUEF UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Burdigalian; Egypt; Estuaries; Moghra Formation; Tide dominated

Indexed keywords

BURDIGALIAN; CLASTIC SEDIMENTS; COASTAL LANDSCAPES; EGYPT; EROSIONAL SCOURS; HIGH FREQUENCY; INFLUX OF SEDIMENT; MIOCENE; MOGHRA FORMATION; REGIONAL TECTONICS; SEALEVEL CHANGE; STRATIGRAPHIC UNITS; TIDAL ESTUARINE; TIDE-DOMINATED; WESTERN DESERT , EGYPT;

DEPOSITS; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONICS;

ESTUARIES;

BURDIGALIAN; CLASTIC SEDIMENT; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; ICE SHEET; LIMESTONE; MUDSTONE; SANDSTONE; SCOUR; SEA LEVEL; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; EGYPT; WESTERN DESERT;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84870475338     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.09.013     Document Type: Review

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