Interpreting shoreline sands using borehole images: A case study of the Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone Member in Utah

American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin

Volumn 91, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1319-1338

  Xu, Chunming ^a  

^a SHELL OIL COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; CORE ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRATIGRAPHY;

CARBONACEOUS SHALES; DELTA PLAINS; SHORELINE SANDS;

SANDSTONE;

BOREHOLE LOGGING; CRETACEOUS; DATA INTERPRETATION; DRILLING; IMAGING METHOD; SANDSTONE; SHORELINE; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

FERRON; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 35148862638     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/04160706132     Document Type: Article

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