Shallow-marine sequences as the building blocks of stratigraphy: Insights from numerical modelling

Basin Research

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 287-303

  Storms, Joep E A ^a   Swift, Donald J P ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN FILL; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHY; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

EID: 0141743759     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2117.2003.00207.x     Document Type: Article

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