Age controls on the Tanqua and Laingsburg deep-water systems: New insights on the evolution and sedimentary fill of the Karoo Basin, South Africa

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 77, Issue 11-12, 2007, Pages 901-908

  Fildani, Andrea ^a   Drinkwater, Nicholas J ^a   Weislogel, Amy ^b,d   McHargue, Tim ^a   Hodgson, David M ^c   Flint, Stephen S ^c  

^a CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; LEAD ALLOYS; SANDSTONE; SILICATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBMARINES; TECTONICS; URANIUM ALLOYS; ZIRCON;

BASIN EVOLUTION; DEEPWATER BASINS; EARLY PALEOZOIC; LATE PALEOZOIC; SAND DEPOSITION; SENSITIVE HIGH-RESOLUTION ION MICROPROBE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; SUBMARINE SLOPES;

DEPOSITION;

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEEP WATER; DEPOCENTER; PERMIAN; PRECAMBRIAN; SEDIMENTATION; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

AFRICA; KAROO; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); TANQUA;

EID: 37049021780     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2007.088     Document Type: Article

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