Facies analysis and sequence stratigraphy of the uppermost Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous Sulaiy Formation in outcrops of central Saudi Arabia

GeoArabia

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 67-122

  Wolpert, Philipp ^e   Bartenbach, Martin ^a   Suess, Peter ^b   Rausch, Randolf ^c   Aigner, Thomas ^d   Le Nindre, Yves Michel ^e  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

^b WINTERSHALL HOLDING GMBH   (Germany)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE ROCK; FACIES ANALYSIS; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; LITHOFACIES; OUTCROP; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 84973316483     PISSN: 10256059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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