Stratigraphic organization of Late Pleistocene deposits of the western part of the Golfe du Lion Shelf (Languedoc shelf), western Mediterranean Sea, using high-resolution seismic and core data

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 119-150

  Tesson, Michel ^a   Posamentier, Henry W ^b   Gensous, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^b BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REGRESSIVE DEPOSITS; TRANSGRESSIVE DEPOSITS;

CORE ANALYSIS; PETROLEUM DEPOSITS; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; SEA LEVEL; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; STRATIGRAPHY;

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

DELTAIC SEDIMENTATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SEISMIC SURVEY; STRATIGRAPHY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0034062776     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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