Modest change in fluvial style with varying accommodation in regressive alluvial-to-coastal-plain wedge: Upper Cretaceous Blackhawk Formation, Wasatch Plateau, central Utah, U.S.A

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 145-169

  Hampson, Gary J ^a   Jewell, Thomas O ^a,d   Irfan, Nawazish ^a,e   Gani, M Royhan ^b   Bracken, Bryan ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^c CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^d Neftex Petroleum Consultants Limited   (United Kingdom)

^e Pakistan Petroleum Limited   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; MILITARY HELICOPTERS; RIVERS; SANDSTONE; STRATIGRAPHY;

ARCHITECTURAL COMPONENTS; INTERNAL ARCHITECTURE; LOCAL VARIATIONS; MEDIUM-GRAINED SANDSTONES; MODEL PREDICTION; STACKING PATTERNS; TRANSPORT CAPACITY; UPPER CRETACEOUS;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ALLUVIAL PLAIN; COASTAL PLAIN; CRETACEOUS; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GRAINSTONE; MODELING; MUDSTONE; PALEOCHANNEL; SANDSTONE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

UNITED STATES; UTAH; WASATCH PLATEAU;

TEREDOLITES;

EID: 84874620900     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2013.8     Document Type: Article

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