Facies and stacking patterns of shelf-deltas within the Palaeogene Battfjellet Formation, Nordenskiöld Land, Svalbard: Implications for subsurface reservoir prediction

Sedimentology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 190-208

  Helland Hansen, William ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

Author keywords

Reservoir prediction; Sandbody geometries; Shelf deltas; Stacking patterns; Svalbard

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; COUPLING; GEOMETRY; LITHOFACIES; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARASEQUENCE; PREDICTION; RESERVOIR; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT PROPERTY; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; TEXTURE;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 72549116754     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2009.01102.x     Document Type: Article

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