Petrology of the Memphis Sand in the Northern Mississippi Embayment

Southeastern Geology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 121-133

  Lumsde, N D ^a   Hundt, K R ^a   Larsen, D ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER; ARENITE; CEMENT; FIELD METHOD; PETROLOGY; POROSITY; SAND; WELL;

MEMPHIS AQUIFER; MISSISSIPPI; NORTH AMERICA; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 69649109383     PISSN: 00383678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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