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The Upper Aptian to Lower Albian syn-rift carbonate succession of the southern Maestrat Basin (Spain): Facies architecture and fault-controlled stratabound dolostones

Martín-Martín, J.D. ; Gomez-Rivas, E. ; Bover-Arnal, Telm ; Travé, A. ; Salas, R. ; Moreno-Bedmar, J.A. ; Tomás, Sara ; Corbella, M. ; Teixell, A. ; Vergés, J. ; Stafford, S.L.

In: Cretaceous Research, 2013, vol. 41, p. 217-236

Syn-rift shallow-marine carbonates of Late Aptian to Early Albian age in the southern Maestrat Basin (E Spain) register the thickest Aptian sedimentary record of the basin, and one of the most complete carbonate successions of this age reported in the northern Tethyan margin. The host limestones (Benassal Formation) are partially replaced by dolostones providing a new case study of...

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Corals on the slope (Aptian, Maestrat Basin, Spain)

Bover-Arnal, Telm ; Löser, Hannes ; Moreno-Bedmar, Josep Anton ; Salas, Ramon ; Strasser, André

In: Cretaceous Research, 2012, p. -

The term “reef” has been frequently misused when applied to fossil coral communities. Our popular but biased view of coral community structure based on the idyllic picture of recent tropical reefs has failed to recognize that, in many fossil examples, alternative states of community structure with no or limited framework may occur. The Aptian colonial scleractinians analysed in the western...