Late Aptian long-lived glacio-eustatic lowstand recorded on the Arabian Plate

Terra Nova

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 87-94

  Maurer, Florian ^a   Van Buchem, Frans S P ^b   Eberli, Gregor P ^c   Pierson, Bernard J ^d   Raven, Madeleine J ^b   Larsen, Poul Henrik ^b   Al Husseini, Moujahed I ^e   Vincent, Benoit ^f  

^a Maersk Oil Qatar   (Qatar)

^b MAERSK OIL   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Malaysia)

^e Gulf PetroLink   (Bahrain)

^f CAMBRIDGE CARBONATES LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; APTIAN; ARABIAN PLATE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CORE ANALYSIS; CRETACEOUS; CYCLIC SEDIMENTATION; ECCENTRICITY; GLACIOEUSTACY; LATITUDE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEISMIC DATA; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

EID: 84875053878     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ter.12009     Document Type: Article

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