Depositional and stratigraphic architecture of the Santonian Emery Sandstone of the Mancos Shale: Implications for Late Cretaceous evolution of the western interior foreland basin of central Utah, U.S.A

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 280-299

  Edwards, Chris M ^a,b   Howell, John A ^a,c   Flint, Stephen S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b EXXONMOBIL EXPLORATION COMPANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL DEPOSITS; COARSENING; CORUNDUM; DEPOSITION; EROSION; SEDIMENTS; SHALE; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE;

DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEM; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; KINEMATIC CONTROL; SEA-LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS; SPATIAL ALIGNMENT; STRATIGRAPHIC ARCHITECTURE; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; TRANSGRESSIVE SYSTEMS TRACTS;

SANDSTONE;

BASIN EVOLUTION; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITION; FORELAND BASIN; SANDSTONE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SHALE; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; UTAH; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 14844354965     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2005.021     Document Type: Review

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