Stratigraphy and sedimentology of shoreface and fluvial conglomerates: Insights from the Cardium Formation in NW Alberta and adjacent British Columbia

Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 437-464

  Hart, Bruce S ^a   Plint, A Guy ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EROSION; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TEXTURES;

CONGLOMERATE TEXTURE; PALEOGEOGRAPHIC SETTING; WAVE-DOMINATED SHOREFACE;

GEOLOGY;

CONGLOMERATE; CRETACEOUS; MARINE SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

ALBERTA; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 3142717315     PISSN: 00074802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/51.4.437     Document Type: Article

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