Lower-middle ordovician lithofacies and interregional correlation, Michigan basin, U.S.A.

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 306, Issue , 1996, Pages 35-54

  Barnes, David A ^a   Harrison III, William B ^a   Shaw, Thomas H ^b  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHES; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEPOSITION; OFFSHORE GAS FIELDS; PROVEN RESERVES; SANDSTONE; SEA LEVEL; SUBSIDENCE;

ACCOMMODATION SPACE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINUOUS DEPOSITION; EUSTATIC SEA LEVEL; HYDROCARBON RESERVES; OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; SEQUENCE-STRATIGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION;

PALLADIUM COMPOUNDS;

CORRELATION; FAUNA; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; LITHOFACIES; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SHALLOW WATER; STORM SURGE; SUBMERGENCE; TRANSGRESSION;

MICHIGAN BASIN;

EID: 0001790305     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2306-X.35     Document Type: Article

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