Source-to-Sink Sediment Volumes within a Tectono-Stratigraphic Model for a Laramide Shelf-to-Deep-Water Basin: Methods and Results

Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins: Recent Advances

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 131-151

  Carvajal, Cristian ^a   Steel, Ron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Laramide orogeny; Lewis shelf margin; Sediment volume; Source to sink; Washakie basin

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870417901     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444347166.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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