Sedimentology, stratigraphic architecture, and ichnology of gravity-flow deposits partially ponded in a growth-fault-controlled slope minibasin, Tres Pasos Formation (Cretaceous), southern Chile

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 440-453

  Shultz, Michael R ^a,b   Hubbard, Stephen M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; SLOPE STABILITY; STRATIGRAPHY;

ACCOMMODATION SPACE; COARSE-GRAINED; DEPOSITIONAL SETTING; MUDDY DEPOSITS; SAND DEPOSITION; SEDIMENTATION UNITS; STRATIGRAPHIC ARCHITECTURE; TRACE FOSSILS;

SEDIMENTATION;

BASIN EVOLUTION; CRETACEOUS; GRAVITY FLOW; ICHNOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; SYNSEDIMENTARY TECTONICS;

CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CRUZIANA; ZOOPHYCOS;

EID: 19344362720     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2005.034     Document Type: Article

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