Depositional environments, architecture, and controls of Early Cretaceous non-marine successions in the northwestern part of Kyongsang Basin, Korea

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 161, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 269-294

  Jo, H R ^a  

^a Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Architectural analysis; Fluvial sequences; Stratigraphic architecture; Tectonic control

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; MUDSTONE; SANDSTONE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONIC SETTING; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT;

KYONGSANG BASIN; SOUTH KOREA;

EID: 0141837214     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(03)00130-1     Document Type: Article

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