Compound paleovalley fills in the Lower Pennsylvanian New River Formation, West Virginia, USA

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 208, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 15-26

  Korus, Jesse T ^a   Kvale, Erik P ^b   Eriksson, Kenneth A ^c   Joeckel, R M ^d  

^a Lower Platte South Natural Resources District   (United States)

^b Devon Energy   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Incised valley fills; New River Formation; Paleovalleys; Sequence boundaries; Sequence stratigraphy; West Virginia

Indexed keywords

INCISED VALLEY; LOWSTAND; MODELING; PARADIGM SHIFT; PENNSYLVANIAN; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TRANSGRESSION; VALLEY FILL;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WEST VIRGINIA;

EID: 46049087114     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2008.04.006     Document Type: Article

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