A ground-penetrating radar survey of a delta-front reservoir analog in the Wall Creek Member, Frontier Formation, Wyoming

American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin

Volumn 89, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1139-1155

  Lee, Keumsuk ^a   Zeng, Xiaoxian ^a   McMechan, George A ^a   Howell Jr , Charles D ^a   Bhattacharya, Janok P ^a   Marcy, Fanny ^a   Olariu, Cornel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; EROSION; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; HYDROCARBONS; LITHOLOGY; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

DELTA-FRONT RESERVOIR; LITHOLOGICAL CHANGES; MOUTH-BAR DEPOSITS; TRANSGRESSIVE RAVINEMENT;

GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR;

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

EID: 24644512934     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/042705040106     Document Type: Article

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