Estimation of source area, river paleo-discharge, paleoslope, and sediment budgets of linked deep-time depositional systems and implications for hydrocarbon potential

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 153, Issue , 2016, Pages 77-110

  Bhattacharya, Janok P ^a   Copeland, Peter ^b   Lawton, Timothy F ^c   Holbrook, John ^d  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

^c CENTRO DE GEOCIENCIAS   (Mexico)

^d TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deltas; Detrital zircons; Paleodischarge; Paleoslope; Provenance; Rivers; Sequence stratigraphy; Source to sink; Submarine fans

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; MESOZOIC; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; SUBMARINE FAN;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84960131394     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.10.013     Document Type: Review

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