Sedimentology and high-resolution sequence stratigraphy of a lower Cretaceous shallow-water carbonate succession from the Western Gargano Promontory (Apulia, Southern Italy)

GeoActa

Volumn , Issue 1, 2008, Pages 173-191

  Spalluto, Luigi ^a  

^a Universita Degli Studi di Bars   (Italy)

Author keywords

Early Cretaceous; Gargano Promontory; High resolution sequence stratigraphy; Inner shelf carbonate; Relative sea level change

Indexed keywords

EID: 85127224413     PISSN: 17218039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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