Controls on turbidite sand deposition during gravity-driven extension of a passive margin: Examples from Miocene sediments in Block 4, Angola

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1165-1203

  Anderson, J E ^a   Cartwright, J ^b   Drysdall, S J ^a   Vivian, N ^a  

^a Canadian Natural Resources Limited (Ranger Oil Limited)   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angola; Gravity extension; Miocene

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY-DRIVEN EXTENSION; PASSIVE MARGINS;

DEPOSITION; GRAVITATION; SAND CONSOLIDATION; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TECTONICS; TURBIDITY;

SAND;

BASIN EVOLUTION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MIOCENE; PASSIVE MARGIN; SEDIMENTATION; TURBIDITE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034460424     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-8172(00)00059-3     Document Type: Article

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