Facies clustering in turbidite successions: Case study fron Andaman Flysch Group, Andaman Islands, India

Gondwana Research

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 918-925

  Mukhopadhyay, Basab ^a   Chakraborty, Partha Pratim ^b   Paul, Soumen ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

^b INDIAN SCHOOL OF MINES   (India)

Author keywords

Andaman Flysch; Channel levee; Hurst statistics; Lobe interlobe; Sea level highstand

Indexed keywords

FACIES ANALYSIS; FLYSCH; OLIGOCENE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SUBMARINE FAN; TURBIDITE;

ANDAMANS; ANDAMANS AND NICOBARS;

EID: 0242349630     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1342-937X(05)71036-4     Document Type: Letter

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