Shelf-margin clinoforms and prediction of deepwater sands

Basin Research

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 521-550

  Johannessen, Erik P ^a   Steel, Ron J ^b  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EOCENE; SAND; SANDSTONE; SHELF BREAK; SHELF SEDIMENT; SLOPE; STRATIGRAPHY; TURBIDITE;

ARCTIC; EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33745183976     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2005.00278.x     Document Type: Article

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