Tide- and wave-generated fluid mud deposits in the Tilje Formation (Jurassic), offshore Norway

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 539-542

  Ichaso, Aitor A ^a   Dalrymple, Robert W ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE RIFTS; DISTRIBUTARY CHANNELS; EARLY JURASSIC; FLUVIAL CHANNELS; JURASSIC; MUD DEPOSIT; RE-SUSPENSION; TECTONIC SETTINGS;

FLUIDS;

DEPOSITS;

ACCUMULATION RATE; DELTAIC SEDIMENTATION; DEPOSITION; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; JURASSIC; MUDSTONE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; TECTONIC SETTING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 69649105794     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25481A.1     Document Type: Article

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