Full-resolution 3d radar stratigraphy of complex oolitic sedimentary architecture: Miami Limestone, Florida U.S.A

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 78, Issue 9-10, 2008, Pages 638-653

  Neal, Adrian ^a,b   Grasmueck, Mark ^a   McNeill, Donald F ^a   Viggiano, David A ^a   Eberli, Gregor P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b Badley Ashton and Associates Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; LIME; LIMESTONE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

EVOLUTIONARY STAGE; FULL RESOLUTIONS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL RESOLUTIONS; LIMESTONE FORMATION; PALEOTOPOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTARY ARCHITECTURE; SPATIAL ALIASING;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

DATA SET; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OOLITE; OUTCROP; PALEOTOPOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; MIAMI; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 51949111037     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2008.070     Document Type: Article

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