Chemostratigraphy: A method to improve interwell correlation in barren sequences - a case study using onshore Duckmantian/Stephanian sequences (West Midlands, U.K.)

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 124, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 197-220

  Pearce, T J ^a   Besly, B M ^b,d   Wray, D S ^c   Wright, D K ^a  

^a Chemostrat Department   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^d Shell UK Limited   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemostratigraphy; Correlation; Provenance; Upper Carboniferous

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE LOGGING; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; PROVENANCE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032822820     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(98)00128-6     Document Type: Article

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