Discriminating between onlap and lithologie interfingering in seismic models of outcrops

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 952-971

  Bracco Gärtner, Guido L ^a   Schlager, Wolfgang ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFINGERING; LAP-OUT PATTERNS; OUTCROPS;

LITHOLOGY; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; STRATIGRAPHY;

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; SEISMIC SURVEY;

EID: 0342615076     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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