Salt-sediment interaction, northern Green Canyon and Ewing Bank (offshore Louisiana), northern Gulf of Mexico

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 82, Issue 5 B, 1998, Pages 1055-1082

  Rowan, Mark G ^b   Weimer, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHOFACIES;

LITHOLOGY; OFFSHORE OIL FIELDS; OFFSHORE PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; SALT DEPOSITS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

SALT TECTONICS; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 0032076743     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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