Diagenetic signatures of stratal surfaces in the Upper Jurassic Fulmar Formation, Central North Sea, UKCS

Sedimentology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1155-1185

  Burns, Fiona E ^a,b   Burley, Stuart D ^a,c,d   Gawthorpe, Rob L ^a   Pollard, John E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d BG India   (India)

Author keywords

Burial diagenesis; Early diagenesis; Ichnofabric analysis; North Sea Jurassic; Sequence stratigraphy; Stratal surfaces

Indexed keywords

BURIAL DIAGENESIS; CEMENTATION; ICHNOFABRIC; JURASSIC; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 33745259530     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2005.00729.x     Document Type: Article

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