Upper Carboniferous stratigraphy of the West Midlands (UK) revised in the light of borehole geophysical logs and detrital compositional suites

Geological Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 85-118

  Besly, B M ^a,c   Cleal, C J ^b  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c Shell Mex House   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Detrital assemblages; England; Stratigraphy; Upper Carboniferous

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE LOGGING; CARBONIFEROUS; DETRITAL MINERAL; STRATIGRAPHY;

UK, ENGLAND, SHROPSHIRE; UK, ENGLAND, STAFFORDSHIRE;

EID: 0031464165     PISSN: 00721050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1034(199706)32:2<85::AID-GJ732>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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