Unconformity-bounded seismic reflection sequences define Grenville-age rift system and foreland basins beneath the Phanerozoic in Ohio

Geosphere

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 140-151

  Baranoski, Mark T ^a   Dean, Stuart L ^b   Wicks, John L ^c   Brown, Vernon M ^b  

^a OHIO DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^c JL Wicks Exploration Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; DEFORMATION; FORELAND BASIN; GRENVILLIAN OROGENY; LITHOLOGY; PETROGRAPHY; PHANEROZOIC; PRECAMBRIAN; RIFT ZONE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

OHIO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954166500     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00202.1     Document Type: Article

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