The sedimentology and geochemistry of phosphatic and associated strata in Jordan : implications for phosphogenesis and the formation of economic phosphorite

Sedimentary, authigenic, and biological processes are preserved within the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Alhisa Phosphorite Formation (AP) in central and northern Jordan. The AP formed near the eastern extremity of the South Tethyan Phosphorite Province (STPP), a carbonate-dominated Upper Cretaceo...

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Main Author: Pufahl, Peir Kenneth
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/13218