Unconventional pattern of reservoir facies distribution in epeiric successions: Lessons from an outcrop analog (Lower Keuper, Germany)

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 39-70

  Pöppelreiter, Michael ^a   Aigner, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH-ENERGY ZONES;

CATCHMENTS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; TECTONICS;

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

CYCLICITY; FACIES ANALYSIS; KEUPER; OUTCROP; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; STRATIGRAPHY; TRIASSIC;

GERMANY;

EID: 0037218942     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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