Quantitative analysis of net-transgressive shoreline trajectories and stratigraphic architectures: Mid-to-late Jurassic of the North Sea rift basin

Basin Research

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 528-558

  Hampson, Gary J ^a   Sixsmith, Peter J ^a,b   Kieft, Rachel L ^a   Jackson, Christopher A L ^a   Johnson, Howard D ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; JURASSIC; LONGSHORE TRANSPORT; MARINE SEDIMENT; MUDSTONE; OCEAN BASIN; REGRESSION; SANDSTONE; SHORELINE CHANGE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TRANSGRESSION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 70349548826     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2009.00414.x     Document Type: Article

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