Texture, composition and stratigraphy of volcanic ash beds in lower Palaeocene chalk from the North Sea Central Graben area

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 767-776

  Simonsen, Lars ^a   Toft, Jørgen ^a  

^a MAERSK OIL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Central Graben; Chalk; Correlation; Danian; Glass; Smectite; Volcanic ash; Zircon

Indexed keywords

SMECTITE; VOLCANIC ASH COMPOSITION; VOLCANIC ASH STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANIC ASH TEXTURE;

COMPOSITION; DEPOSITION; MINERALOGY; OPTICAL CORRELATION; STRATIGRAPHY; TEXTURES;

VOLCANOES;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DEPOSITION; PALEOCENE; STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC GLASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CENTRAL GRABEN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 33749059554     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2006.06.003     Document Type: Article

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