Sand-body architecture in the lower Williams Fork Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Coal Canyon, Colorado, with comparison to the Piceance Basin subsurface

Mountain Geologist

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 85-107

  Cole, Rex D ^a   Cumella, Stephen P ^b  

^a and Mass Communication   (United States)

^b Bill Barrett Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE;

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

EID: 23144461800     PISSN: 0027254X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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