Depositional facies and reservoir quality of deep-marine sandstones in the Norwegian Sea

Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 71-92

  Lien, Trond ^a   Midtbø, Ruth Elin ^a   Martinsen, Ole J ^a  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DEBRIS FLOW; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; DEPOSITION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FACIES; PALEOCENE; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TURBIDITY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 33845653513     PISSN: 0029196X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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