Shelf edge and shoreline trajectories, a dynamic approach to stratigraphic analysis

Basin Research

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 445-453

  Henriksen, Sverre ^a   Hampson, Gary J ^b   Helland Hansen, William ^c   Johannessen, Erik P ^a   Steel, Ron J ^d  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA SET; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; FACIES; LITHOLOGY; PERMIAN; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SHELF BREAK; SHORELINE;

EID: 70349488210     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2009.00432.x     Document Type: Article

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