Architecture and stratigraphic evolution of multiple, vertically-stacked slope channel complexes, Tanqua depocentre, Karoo Basin, South Africa

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 244, Issue , 2005, Pages 89-111

  Wild, Richard J ^a   Hodgson, David M ^a   Flint, Stephen S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL; FACIES ANALYSIS; SUBMARINE SLOPE;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; KAROO BASIN; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

TANQUA;

EID: 23844433350     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2005.244.01.06     Document Type: Article

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