Depositional environments and sequence stratigraphy of an exhumed permian mudstone-dominated submarine slope succession, KAROO BASIN, SOUTH AFRICA

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 80, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 97-118

  Figueiredo, Jorge J P ^a,b   Hodgson, David M ^a   Flint, Stephen S ^a   Kavanagh, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b EandP Exp/IABMEQ/INTP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; SAND; SUBMARINES; TOPOGRAPHY;

ARCHITECTURAL STYLE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCES; DIFFERENTIAL COMPACTION; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STACKING PATTERNS; SUBMARINE SLOPES;

STRATIGRAPHY;

CLAYSTONE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; GLACIOEUSTACY; MUDSTONE; PERMIAN; SANDSTONE; SEA LEVEL; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SUBMARINE SLOPE;

KAROO; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 77649099134     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2010.002     Document Type: Article

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