Impact of sediment transport efficiency on large-scale sequence architecture: Results from stratigraphic computer simulation

Basin Research

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 91-105

  Rivenæs, Jan C ^a  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ARCHITECTURE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

EID: 0030860320     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2117.1997.00037.x     Document Type: Article

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