Industrial application of deep-sea sediments

Developments in Sedimentology

Volumn 63, Issue C, 2011, Pages 715-764

  Imbert, Patrice ^a  

^a TOTAL   (France)

Author keywords

Cfield appraisal; Channel; Elemental approach; Hydrocarbon reservoir; Levee; Lobe; Mass transport complex; Oil and gas exploration; Polymer; Post burial sediment remobilisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650088780     PISSN: 00704571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53000-4.00010-X     Document Type: Book

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