Integrated stratigraphy of the Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Upper Jurassic) based on exposures and boreholes in South Dorset, UK

Geological Magazine

Volumn 138, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 511-539

  Morgans Bell, Helen S ^a   Coe, Angela L ^b   Hesselbo, Stephen P ^a   Jenkyns, Hugh C ^a   Weedon, Graham P ^c   Marshall, John E A ^d   Tyson, Richard V ^e   Williams, Carolyn J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; FERTILIZERS; INFILL DRILLING; LIME; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; ORGANIC CARBON; SHALE; STRATIGRAPHY;

CARBONATE SUCCESSIONS; DRILLING PROJECTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTEGRATED STRATIGRAPHY; KIMMERIDGE CLAY FORMATION; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; SPECTRAL GAMMA RAYS; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

GAMMA RAYS;

CLAY; JURASSIC; LITHOLOGY; MARL; SHALE; STRATIGRAPHY;

ENGLAND (DORSET); UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0035202642     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0016756801005738     Document Type: Article

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