The nature of shallow-water carbonate lithofacies thickness distributions

Geology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 235-238

  Burgess, Peter M ^a  

^a SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

Bed thickness; Carbonate; Exponential distribution; Facies

Indexed keywords

EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION; FACIES; STOCHASTIC POISSON PROCESS;

DEPOSITION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

CARBONATE MINERALS;

ACCUMULATION RATE; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CARBONATE ROCK; DEPOSITION; LITHOFACIES; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHALLOW WATER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 44449147438     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G243326A.1     Document Type: Article

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