Stratigraphy of the Middle Eocene - Lower Oligocene successions in northwestern and eastern Jordan

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue , 2013, Pages 396-408

  Farouk, Sherif ^a   Ahmad, Fayez ^b   Smadi, Ahmad A ^c  

^a Organic Geochemistry Unit   (Egypt)

^b HASHEMITE UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Calcareous nannofossils; Eocene Oligocene unconformity; Jordan; Planktonic foraminifera; Wadi El Ghadaf

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN PLATE; ARABIAN PLATE; BASIN EVOLUTION; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; LUTETIAN; NANOFOSSIL; PALEOTOPOGRAPHY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; RUPELIAN; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

JORDAN;

DISCOASTER; FORAMINIFERA; PSEUDOHASTIGERINA; TURBOROTALIA;

EID: 84879314975     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2013.05.005     Document Type: Article

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