Geohorizon: Recommendations for a uniform chronostratigraphic designation system for Phanerozoic depositional sequences

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1095-1122

  Snedden, John W ^a,b,c   Liu, Chengjie ^a  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION;

AGE CONSTRAINTS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCES; FULLY INTEGRATED; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK; TECTONIC SETTINGS;

STRATIGRAPHY;

AGE DETERMINATION; COASTAL ZONE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; INTEGRATED APPROACH; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHANEROZOIC; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 80051484007     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/01031110138     Document Type: Article

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