Recognition and interpretation of depositional units in a late Neogene progradational shelf margin complex, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand: Foraminiferal data compared with seismic facies and wireline logs

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 164, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 55-74

  Scott, G H ^a   King, P R ^a   Crundwell, M P ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Biofacies; Foraminifera; Progradation; Seismic stratigraphy; Slope and shelf margin sedimentation; Wireline logging

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONTINENTAL SHELF; FORAMINIFERA; NEOGENE; PROGRADATION; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; TARANAKI BASIN;

EID: 0842305230     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2003.09.002     Document Type: Article

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