Trajectory analysis of the lower Brent Group (Jurassic), Northern North Sea: Contrasting depositional patterns during the advance of a major deltaic system

Basin Research

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 559-572

  Bullimore, S A ^a   Helland Hansen, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELTAIC SEDIMENTATION; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; FACIES; JURASSIC; PROGRADATION; REGRESSION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SYSTEMS TRACT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 70349501627     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2009.00410.x     Document Type: Article

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