Controls on focused-flow and dispersed-flow deepwater carbonates: Miocene Agua Amarga basin, Spain

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 82, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 499-520

  Goldstein, Robert H ^a   Franseen, Evan K ^a   Dvoretsky, Rachel A ^a,b   Sweeney, Rafferty J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSTEPPING; CARBONATION; COARSENING; DEPOSITS; EROSION; FLOODS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GEOMETRY; LOCATION; OFFSHORE GAS FIELDS; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL; STRATIGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHY;

COARSE-GRAINED SEDIMENTS; CONVENTIONAL OIL AND GAS; DEEP-WATER CARBONATES; LATERAL CONFINEMENT; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENT CHARACTERS; SEDIMENT GRAVITY FLOW;

SEDIMENTS;

CARBONATE PLATFORM; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GRAVITY FLOW; LITHOFACIES; MIOCENE; MODEL TEST; OUTCROP; PALEOTOPOGRAPHY; POINT SOURCE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SHALLOW WATER; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

SPAIN;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84864977549     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2012.46     Document Type: Article

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