Controls and predictability of carbonate facies architecture in a Lower Jurassic three-dimensional barrier-shoal complex (Djebel Bou Dahar, High Atlas, Morocco)

Sedimentology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1801-1831

  Verwer, Klaas ^a   Porta, Giovanna Della ^b   Merino Tomé, Oscar ^b   Kenter, Jeroen A M ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Chevron Energy Technology Company   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Carbonate outer platform; Digital outcrop model; Jurassic; Morocco; Shoal barrier facies

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; DEPOSITION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FACIES ANALYSIS; JURASSIC; LAGOONAL SEDIMENTATION; LITHOFACIES; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TIDAL FLAT;

AFRICA; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 70350119837     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2009.01058.x     Document Type: Article

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