High resolution sequence stratigraphic architecture of a transgressive coastal succession: Albian Bow Island Formation, southwestern Alberta

Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 441-477

  Pedersen, Per Kent ^a   Schröder Adams, Claudia J ^a   Nielsen, Olga ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BP Canada Energy Group ULC   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUDE PETROLEUM; DEPOSITS; EROSION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHALE; SURFACES;

MICROPALEONTOLOGY;

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

ALBIAN; COASTAL STRUCTURE; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FACIES; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

ALBERTA; CANADA;

EID: 0038168833     PISSN: 00074802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/50.4.441     Document Type: Article

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