Simulation of sedimentary facies on the Northern California Shelf

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 635-638

  Zhang, Yong ^a   Swift, Donald J P ^a   Niedoroda, Alan W ^b   Reed, Christopher W ^b   Thorne, Julian A ^c  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b URS CORPORATION   (United States)

^c CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; STORMS;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; COUPLED MECHANISMS; EROSION AND DEPOSITION; PRESERVATION POTENTIAL; PROBABILITY DENSITY DISTRIBUTION; SEDIMENTARY FACIES; STOCHASTIC BEHAVIOR; TRANSPORT EQUATION; SMALL TIME SCALE;

STORMS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FACIES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SORTING; STOCHASTICITY; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; FACIES DISTRIBUTION; STORM EVENT;

CALIFORNIA SHELF; PACIFIC OCEAN; NORTH CALIFORNIAN SHELF; PACIFIC;

EID: 0030867643     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0635:SOSFOT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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