Stratigraphic architecture of the Sonia Fluvial interval, India in its Precambrian context

Precambrian Research

Volumn 214-215, Issue , 2012, Pages 210-226

  Sarkar, Subir ^a   Samanta, Pradip ^a,b   Mukhopadhyay, Soumik ^a,b   Bose, Pradip K ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b DURGAPUR GOVERNMENT COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Architectural elements; Facies; Palaeohydraulics; Precambrian; Sequence stratigraphy; Sonia fluvial; Stratigraphic architecture

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FACIES ANALYSIS; PALEOCURRENT; PRECAMBRIAN; PROTEROZOIC; RIVER CHANNEL; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

INDIA;

EID: 84865386335     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2012.01.001     Document Type: Article

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