Architecture and depositional sequences of Tertiary fault-block carbonate platforms; an anlysis from outcrop (Miocene, Gulf of Suez) and computer modelling

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 203-221

  Bosence, Dan ^a   Cross, Nigel ^b   Hardy, Stuart ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Badley Ashton and Associates Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TERTIARY FAULT BLOCK CARBONATE PLATFORMS;

CARBONATES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

CARBONATE PLATFORM; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; MIOCENE;

ASIA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 0032075826     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-8172(98)00016-6     Document Type: Article

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