The Triassic-Jurassic Fundy Basin, eastern Canada: Regional setting, stratigraphy and hydrocarbon potential

Atlantic Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 189-231

  Wade, John A ^a   Brown, David E ^b   Traverse, Alfred ^c   Fensome, Robert A ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b Canada Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board   (Canada)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FACIES DISTRIBUTION; HYDROCARBON POTENTIAL; JURASSIC; RIFT BASIN; STRATIGRAPHY; TRIASSIC;

CANADA, MARITIME PROVINCES, FUNDY BASIN;

EID: 0030408682     PISSN: 08435561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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