Shallow-lacustrine sand-rich deltaic depositional cycles and sequence stratigraphy of the Upper Triassic Yanchang Formation, Ordos Basin, China

Basin Research

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 108-125

  Caineng, Zou ^a   Xingyang, Zhang ^a   Ping, Luo ^a   Lan, Wang ^a   Zhong, Luo ^a   Liuhong, Liu ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELTAIC DEPOSIT; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; HYDROCARBON MIGRATION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; OUTCROP; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON; SAND; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SHALLOW WATER; SUBSIDENCE; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE; TRIASSIC;

CHINA; ORDOS BASIN;

EID: 74949144133     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2009.00450.x     Document Type: Article

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