Genesis of an over-thickened shoreface sandstone tongue: The Rannoch and Etive formations of the Middle Jurassic Brent delta, North Sea

Basin Research

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 620-643

  Helle, K ^a   Helland Hansen, W ^b  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JURASSIC; PROGRADATION; SANDSTONE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TRANSGRESSION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 70349492367     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2009.00395.x     Document Type: Article

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