Three-dimensional stratigraphic evolution of the Miocene Baltimore Canyon region: Implications for eustatic interpretations and the systems tract model

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 110, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1105-1122

  Poulsen, Chris J ^a   Flemings, Peter B ^a   Robinson, Ruth A J ^a,b   Metzger, John M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; LITHOLOGY; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; SEA LEVEL;

DIMENSIONAL COMPLEXITY; GLACIOEUSTATIC CHANGES; INDIVIDUAL SEQUENCES; LITHOLOGIC COMPOSITIONS; SEQUENCE-STRATIGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION; STRATIGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; THICKNESS DISTRIBUTIONS; TRADITIONAL APPROACHES;

STRATIGRAPHY;

CYCLIC SEDIMENTATION; EUSTACY; MIOCENE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIMORE CANYON;

EID: 84879882360     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1998)110<1105:TDSEOT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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