Shelf construction in a foreland basin: storm beds, shelf sandbodies, and shelf‐slope depositional sequences in the Upper Cretaceous Mesaverde Group, Book Cliffs, Utah

Sedimentology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 423-457

  SWIFT, DONALD J P ^a   HUDELSON, PETER M ^b   BRENNER, ROBERT L ^b   THOMPSON, PETER ^a  

^a BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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EID: 0023495917     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.1987.tb00578.x     Document Type: Article

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