Marine transgressions in the mid-Creataceous of the Cordilleran foreland basin re-interpreted as orogenic unloading deposits

Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 179-198

  Yang, Yongtai ^a   Miall, Andrew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISH; MEATS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SANDSTONE; SEA LEVEL; UNLOADING; WATER LEVELS; WELL LOGGING;

ALBERTA; ALLOSTRATIGRAPHY; BASIN EVOLUTIONS; CENOMANIAN; CONTROLLING FACTORS; CORE MEASUREMENTS; DISTRIBUTARY CHANNELS; FISH SCALES; FORELAND BASINS; MARINE TRANSGRESSIONS; PRIMARY CONTROLS; STRATIGRAPHIC MARKERS; TURONIAN; WELL LOG CORRELATIONS;

STRATIGRAPHY;

ALLOSTRATIGRAPHY; BASIN EVOLUTION; CORRELATION; CRETACEOUS; EUSTACY; FORELAND BASIN; ISOPACH MAP; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHORELINE CHANGE; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSGRESSION;

ALBERTA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 56849111681     PISSN: 00074802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gscpgbull.56.3.179     Document Type: Article

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