Chapter 43 The Application of Bulk Rock Geochemistry to Reveal Heavy Mineral Sorting and Flow Units in Thick, Massive Gravity Flow Deposits, Siri Canyon Palaeocene Sandstones, Danish North Sea

Developments in Sedimentology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2007, Pages 1099-1121

  Poulsen, Mette Lise K ^a   Friis, Henrik ^a   Svendsen, Johan B ^b   Jensen, Christian B ^a   Bruhn, Rikke ^c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Altinex Oil Denmark A/S   (Denmark)

^c DONG Energy AS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Gravity flows; heavy mineral sorting; injected sand; Palaeocene; remobilisation; Siri Canyon

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249034987     PISSN: 00704571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-4571(07)58043-X     Document Type: Review

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