Borehole petrophysical chemostratigraphy of Pennsylvanian black shales in the Kansas subsurface

Chemical Geology

Volumn 206, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 249-258

  Doveton, J H ^a   Merriam, D F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Atomic number; Borehole geophysics; Clay minerals; Potassium; Thorium; Uranium

Indexed keywords

BLACK SHALE; BOREHOLE LOGGING; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; PENNSYLVANIAN; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

KANSAS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 2442447294     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2003.12.027     Document Type: Article

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