Greta Coal Measures in the Muswellbrook Anticline area, New South Wales

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 259-279

  Boyd, R ^b   Leckie, D ^a  

^a Canadian Occidental Petroleum Ltd   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coal; Greta Coal Measures; Hunter Valley; Sequence stratigraphy; Sydney Basin

Indexed keywords

COAL MEASURES; PERMIAN; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0034079776     PISSN: 08120099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-0952.2000.00778.x     Document Type: Article

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