Stratigraphic architecture of the Oldman Formation, Belly River Group, surface and subsurface of southern Alberta

Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 155-177

  Hamblin, Anthony P ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

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CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; HYDROCARBON POTENTIAL; SEQUENCE ARCHITECTURE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

CANADA, ALBERTA;

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