Tectonic deformation and its sedimentary consequences during deposition of the Lower Cretaceous Chaswood Formation, Elmsvale basin, Nova Scotia

Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 189-199

  Piper, David J W ^a   Pe Piper, Georgia ^b   Douglas, Ernest V ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; DEFORMATION; LITHOLOGY; OFFSHORE PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; PETROLEUM DEPOSITS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

DELTAIC DEPOSITS; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; SYN-SEDIMENTARY CONSEQUENCES; TECTONIC DEFORMATION;

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; DEPOSITION; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; SANDSTONE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

EID: 27144513714     PISSN: 00074802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/53.2.189     Document Type: Article

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