Alluvial stacking pattern analysis and sequence stratigraphy: Concepts and case studies

SEPM Special Publications

Volumn 104, Issue , 2013, Pages 109-129

  Atchley, Stacy C ^a   Nordt, Lee C ^a   Dworkin, Stephen I ^a   Cleveland, David M ^b   Mintz, Jason S ^c   Harlow, R Hunter ^d  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^c ANADARKO PETROLEUM CORPORATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Alluvial; Climate; Cretaceous Tertiary; Cyclostratigraphy; Devonian; Eustasy; Late Triassic; Paleosols; Sequence stratigraphy; Stacking pattern analysis; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930385534     PISSN: 1060071X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2110/sepmsp.104.13     Document Type: Article

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