The Table Rocks Sandstone: A fluvial, friction-dominated lobate mouth bar sandbody in the Westphalian B Coal Measures, NE England

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 190, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 97-119

  Turner, Brian R ^a   Tester, Gillian N ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Shell UK Exploration and Production   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alluvial architecture; Mouth bar sandbody; NE England; Westphalian

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; COMPACTION; DEPOSITION; EROSION; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; LITHOFACIES; MUDSTONE; SANDSTONE; TECTONIC SETTING;

CENTRAL EUROPE; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WESTPHALIA;

EID: 33746255838     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2006.05.007     Document Type: Article

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