Facies mosaics across the Persian Gulf and around Antigua - Stochastic and deterministic products of shallow-water sediment accumulation

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 513-526

  Wilkinson, Bruce H ^a   Drummond, Carl N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RANDOM PROCESSES; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; STRATIGRAPHY;

CONTROLLING PARAMETERS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; LATERAL HETEROGENEITY; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; SHALLOW WATER SEDIMENTS; SIZE-FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; STRATIGRAPHIC INTERVALS; THICKNESS FREQUENCIES;

DEPOSITION;

FACIES ANALYSIS; HOLOCENE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEDIMENTATION; SHALLOW WATER;

ANTIGUA; ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA; ARABIAN SEA; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; INDIAN OCEAN; LEEWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES]; LESSER ANTILLES; PERSIAN GULF;

EID: 4043150099     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/123103740513     Document Type: Article

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