The diversity of deep-water sinuous channel belts and slope valley-fill complexes

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 7-34

  Janocko, M ^a   Nemec, W ^a   Henriksen, S ^b   Warchol M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

3D seismics; Channel bend mound; Continental slope; Lateral accretion package; Lev e; Meandering; Offshore West Africa; Point bar; Turbidite

Indexed keywords

3-D SEISMICS; CHANNEL-BEND MOUND; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; LATERAL ACCRETION PACKAGES; MEANDERING; POINT BAR; TURBIDITE; WEST AFRICA;

EROSION; PETROLEUM GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

LANDFORMS;

AGGRADATION; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DEEP WATER FORMATION; OUTCROP; SEISMIC SURVEY; SUBMARINE CHANNEL; TURBIDITE; VALLEY FILL;

WEST AFRICA;

EID: 84873992650     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2012.06.012     Document Type: Article

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