Sub-grid parameterisation of fluvio-deltaic processes and architecture in a basin-scale stratigraphic model

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1370-1380

  Dalman, Rory A F ^a   Weltje, Gert Jan ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alluvial architecture; Avulsion; Fluvio deltaic; Numerical; Reservoir model; Stratigraphic

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING; ARCHITECTURE; CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DEPOSITS; DRAINAGE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

(I ,J) CONDITIONS; ALTERNATING PHASES; AVULSION FREQUENCY; BASIN FILL ARCHITECTURE; CHANNEL NETWORKS; CHANNEL STABILITY; DISTRIBUTARY CHANNELS; DRAINAGE NETWORKS; ELSEVIER (CO); GEOLOGICAL RESERVOIRS; GRID CELLS; IMPLICIT KNOWLEDGE; IN CHANNELS; MAJOR ELEMENTS; NEIGHBOURHOOD; OVERBANK DEPOSITION; QUASI-CYCLIC; STRATIGRAPHIC EXPRESSION; SUB GRIDS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT LOADS; TIME INVARIANTS; WATER COLUMN (WC);

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

AGGRADATION; ALLUVIAL PLAIN; AVULSION; CHANNEL FLOW; DELTAIC DEPOSIT; DELTAIC SEDIMENTATION; DRAINAGE NETWORK; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

EID: 47749135251     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2008.02.005     Document Type: Article

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