Unravelling the microfacies signatures of parasequences using computer-optimized similarity matrices

Sedimentology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1243-1271

  Spence, Guy H ^a   Arnaud Vanneau, Annie ^b   Arnaud, Hubert ^b   Tucker, Maurice E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbonate microfacies; Optimization; Relative sea level cycles; Relay; Sequence stratigraphy; Similarity coefficients

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE ROCK; CRETACEOUS; MICROFACIES; PARASEQUENCE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; OMAN; WORLD;

EID: 11144266551     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2004.00669.x     Document Type: Article

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