Sand-grade density flow evolution on a shelf-edge-slope-basin-floor complex in the Upper Jurassic Olympen Formation, East Greenland

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 81-92

  Bruhn, Rikke ^a   Surlyk, Finn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Depositional architecture; East greenland; Reservoir analogue; Sand grade density flows; Upper jurassic

Indexed keywords

EID: 83155180134     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079302-559     Document Type: Article

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