From ramp to platform: Building a 3D model of depositional geometries and facies architectures in transitional carbonates in the Miocene, Northern Sardinia

Facies

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 195-210

  Tomás, Sara ^a   Zitzmann, M ^a   Homann, M ^a   Rumpf, M ^a   Amour, F ^a   Benisek, M ^b   Marcano, G ^a   Mutti, M ^a   Betzler, C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Digital outcrop model (DOM); Facies distribution; Geometry; Sardinia; Transitional carbonates

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PLATFORM; CARBONATE RAMP; CARBONATE SYSTEM; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; FACIES ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; MIOCENE; MODELING; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; UNCONFORMITY;

ITALY; SARDINIA;

EID: 77952674757     PISSN: 01729179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10347-009-0203-7     Document Type: Article

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