Precambrian basin-margin fan deposits: Mesoproterozoic Bagalkot Group, India

Precambrian Research

Volumn 162, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 264-283

  Bose, Pradip K ^a   Sarkar, Subir ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Soumik ^a   Saha, Bikas ^a   Eriksson, Patrick ^b  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Alluvial fan; Bagalkot basin margin; Element packaging; Facies architecture; Fluvial architectural elements; Lateral variability; Mesoproterozoic; Scree cone; Tectonic control

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; CHANNEL FLOW; CLASTIC ROCK; DISCHARGE; FACIES; MARGINAL BASIN; PRECAMBRIAN; PROTEROZOIC; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SEDIMENTATION; SEMIARID REGION;

ASIA; BAGALKOT; EURASIA; INDIA; KARNATAKA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 39849108477     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2007.07.022     Document Type: Article

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