Sedimentology and stratigraphy of a thick, areally extensive fluvial-marine transition, Missisauga Formation, offshore Nova Scotia, and its correlation with shelf margin and slope strata

Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 152-174

  Cummings, Don I ^a,b   Hart, Bruce S ^c   Arnott, R William C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SANDSTONE; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; WELL LOGGING;

FLUVIAL-MARINE TRANSITION; PANUKE RESERVOIRS; UPWARD-FINING SUCCESSION; WAVE-FORMED BARRIER SYSTEM;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; CRETACEOUS; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMIC DATA; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NOVA SCOTIA;

EID: 33749124324     PISSN: 00074802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gscpgbull.54.2.152     Document Type: Article

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