Shelf-margin deltas: Their stratigraphic significance and relation to deepwater sands

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 62, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 283-326

  Porȩbski, Szczepan J ^a   Steel, Ronald J ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Basin floor fan; Depositional systems tract; Forced regression; Sequence boundary; Shelf margin delta

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELF; DELTA; DELTAIC SEDIMENTATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SYSTEMS TRACT;

EID: 0041911399     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-8252(02)00161-7     Document Type: Article

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