Carbonate facies, depositional sequences and tectonostratigraphy of the Palaeogene Malta Platform

The break-up of Pangaea and the Late Mesozoic global sea-level rise drowned many Tethyan carbonate platforms although the resilient Malta Platform aggraded >4 km of carbonates along the North African passive margin where it was isolated from continental siliciclastics. Carbonate sedimentation was...

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Main Author: Gatt, Peter A.
Published: Durham University 2012
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.614378