Detrital sources and sediment delivery to the early post-rift (Albian-Cenomanian) Newfoundland Basin east of the Grand Banks: Results from ODP Leg 210

Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 69-92

  Hiscott, Richard N ^a   Marsaglia, Kathleen M ^b   Wilson, R Chris L ^c   Robertson, Alastair H F ^d   Karner, Garry D ^e   Tucholke, Brian E ^f   Pletsch, Thomas ^g   Petschick, Rainer ^h  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^f WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^g FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^h GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY DEPOSITS; CLAY MINERALS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; FELDSPAR; GRAVITATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; LITHOLOGY; METAL RECOVERY; MICA; MICA DEPOSITS; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; ORE DEPOSIT GEOLOGY; POTASSIUM; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TECTONICS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CENOMANIAN; CLAY MINERALOGY; DIAGENETIC; FORELAND BASINS; GEOLOGIC UNITS; GRAND BANKS; GRAVITY FLOWS; MESOZOIC RIFTING; NEWFOUNDLAND; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PALEOCURRENT; PALYGORSKITE; POTASSIUM FELDSPAR; SAND CONTENT; SEDIMENT COMPOSITION; SEDIMENT DELIVERY; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SEISMIC DATA;

SEDIMENTS;

ALBIAN; CENOMANIAN; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; DIAGENESIS; FORELAND BASIN; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PALEOCURRENT; RIFTING; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; UPLIFT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GRAND BANKS; NEWFOUNDLAND BASIN;

MICAS;

EID: 53649083162     PISSN: 00074802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gscpgbull.56.2.69     Document Type: Article

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