Relationships between shelf-edge trajectories and sediment dispersal along depositional dip and strike: A different approach to sequence stratigraphy

Basin Research

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-21

  Henriksen, Sverre ^a   Helland Hansen, William ^b   Bullimore, Scott ^a,b  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; DISPERSION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PROGRADATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SHELF BREAK; SHELF SEDIMENT; SYSTEMS TRACT; TRAJECTORY;

DELTA AMACURO; NIGER DELTA; NIGERIA; ORINOCO DELTA; VENEZUELA;

EID: 78751541159     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2010.00463.x     Document Type: Article

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