Clinoform stacking patterns, shelf-edge trajectories and facies associations in Tertiary coastal deltas, offshore Norway: Implications for the prediction of lithology in prograding systems

Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 85, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 169-187

  Bullimore, Scott ^a,b   Henriksen, Sverre ^b   Liestøl, Frode M ^a,b   Helland Hansen, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; COASTAL ZONE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DELTA; FACIES ANALYSIS; IMAGING METHOD; PROGRADATION; SEISMIC DATA; SHELF BREAK; TERTIARY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 33746655036     PISSN: 0029196X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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