Bypass margins, basin-restricted wedges, and platform-to-basin correlation, Upper Devonian, Canadian Rocky Mountains: Implications for sequence stratigraphy of carbonate platform systems

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 913-936

  Whalen, Michael T ^a   Eberli, Gregor P ^b   Van Buchem, Frans S P ^c   Mountjoy, Eric W ^d   Homewood, Peter W ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e TOTAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; DEBRIS; DEPOSITS; EROSION; MINERALS; ORGANIC CARBON; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); UNDERWATER MINERALOGY;

CARBONATE SEDIMENTATIONS; COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCES; DIFFERENTIAL SUBSIDENCE; FINE-GRAINED CARBONATES; ORGANIC CARBON CONTENTS; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL RISE; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION;

CARBONATION;

BASIN EVOLUTION; CARBONATE PLATFORM; DEVONIAN; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

CANADA;

EID: 0033831632     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/2DC40941-0E47-11D7-8643000102C1865D     Document Type: Article

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