Confined channel-levee complex development in an elongate depo-center: Deep-water Tertiary strata of the Austrian Molasse basin

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 85-112

  Hubbard, Stephen M ^a   de Ruig, Menno J ^b   Graham, Stephan A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpine Geology; Basin axial channel; Channel levee complex; Deep water sedimentary processes; Foreland basin; Molasse basin; Subsurface data; Turbidites

Indexed keywords

ALPINE GEOLOGY; BASIN AXIAL CHANNEL; CHANNEL-LEVEE COMPLEX; DEEP-WATER SEDIMENTARY PROCESSES; FORELAND BASIN; MOLASSE BASIN; SUBSURFACE DATA; TURBIDITES;

CORE DRILLING; DEBRIS; EARTH SCIENCES; EMBANKMENTS; EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; GRAVITATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; LEVEES; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; STRIPPING (DYES); THREE DIMENSIONAL; TURBIDITY;

SEDIMENTATION;

DEEP WATER; DEPOCENTER; FORELAND BASIN; LEVEE; OVERBANK FLOW; SEDIMENTATION; TERTIARY; TURBIDITE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; MOLASSE BASIN;

EID: 56949103295     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2007.11.006     Document Type: Article

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