The signal and the noise: Forward modeling of allocylic and autocyclic processes influencing peritidal carbonate stacking patterns

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 76, Issue 7-8, 2006, Pages 962-977

  Burgess, Peter M ^a  

^a SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; STRATIGRAPHY;

EXTERNAL SIGNALS; FORWARD MODELING; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; STACKING PATTERNS; STRATIGRAPHIC FORWARD MODELS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; TRANSPORT DIRECTION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

CARBONATE SEDIMENT; MODELING; PARASEQUENCE; PROGRADATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SHORELINE; STACKING;

EID: 33749435573     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2006.084     Document Type: Article

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