Stratigraphic style of coal and non-marine strata in a tectonically influenced intermediate accommodation setting: The Mannville Group of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, south-central Alberta

Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 507-541

  Wadsworth, Jennifer ^a   Boyd, Ron ^a   Diessel, Claus ^a   Leckie, Dale ^b   Zaitlin, Brian A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b CNOOC LTD   (China)

^c ENCANA CORPORATION   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL; COMPOSITION; GROUNDWATER; STRATIGRAPHY;

STRATIGRAPHIC ANALYSIS;

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

BASIN EVOLUTION; COAL; CRETACEOUS; MARINE SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; STRATIGRAPHY; TERRIGENOUS DEPOSIT;

ALBERTA; CANADA; WESTERN CANADA SEDIMENTARY BASIN;

EID: 0038168829     PISSN: 00074802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/50.4.507     Document Type: Article

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