Interplay between shoreline migration paths, architecture and pinchout distance for siliciclastic shoreline tongues: Evidence from the rock record

Sedimentology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 735-767

  Løseth, Tore M ^a,d   Steel, Ron J ^b   Crabaugh, Jeff P ^c   Schellpeper, Maija ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^d STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Angle of turnaround; Facies architecture; Pinchout distance; Sequence stratigraphy; Shoreline tongue; Shoreline trajectory

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; EROSION; FACIES ANALYSIS; SANDSTONE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SHORELINE CHANGE; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

EID: 33745934217     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2006.00791.x     Document Type: Article

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