Sedimentological criteria to differentiate submarine channel levee subenvironments: Exhumed examples from the Rosario Fm. (Upper Cretaceous) of Baja California, Mexico, and the Fort Brown Fm. (Permian), Karoo Basin, S. Africa

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 807-823

  Kane, Ian A ^a   Hodgson, David M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; ENTIRE SYSTEM; KNOWLEDGE GAPS; LEVEE SYSTEM; ME-XICO; PERMIAN; SEA FLOOR; SOUTH AFRICA; SUBMARINE CHANNEL; THIN BED; UNIFORM FLOW; UPPER CRETACEOUS; WELL LOGS;

STRATIGRAPHY; SUBMARINES; WELL LOGGING;

LEVEES;

CRETACEOUS; LEVEE; OUTCROP; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PERMIAN; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBMARINE CHANNEL;

BAJA CALIFORNIA [(PNN) MEXICO]; KAROO; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 79551575633     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2010.05.009     Document Type: Article

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