Seismic analysis of clinoform depositional sequences and shelf-margin trajectories in Lower Cretaceous (Albian) strata, Alaska North Slope

Basin Research

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 644-654

  Houseknecht, David W ^a   Bird, Kenneth J ^b   Schenk, Christopher J ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBIAN; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; FORELAND BASIN; SEISMIC DATA; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; TRANSGRESSION;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70349490282     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2008.00392.x     Document Type: Article

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