Migration and stratigraphic fill of an underfilled foreland basin: Middle-Late Cenomanian Belle Fourche Formation in southern Alberta, Canada

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 227, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 51-64

  Yang, Yongtai ^a   Miall, Andrew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alberta; Cenomanian; Forebulge; Foreland basin; Sediment load

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; BASIN FILL; CENOMANIAN; EROSION; FORELAND BASIN; OROGENY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TOPOGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

ALBERTA; CANADA;

EID: 77952674203     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2010.03.005     Document Type: Article

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