Understanding growth-faulted, intraslope subbasins by applying sequence-stratigraphic principles: Examples from the south Texas Oligocene Frio Formation

American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin

Volumn 88, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1501-1522

  Brown Jr , L Frank ^a   Loucks, Robert G ^a   Trevino, Ramón H ^a   Hammes, Ursula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTATION; TECTONICS;

FAULT BLOCKS; GROWTH-FAULT SYSTEMS; INTRASLOPE SUBBASINS; SUBBASIN STRATIGRAPHY;

STRATIGRAPHY;

CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DEPOSITION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; OLIGOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SYNSEDIMENTARY TECTONICS;

NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 8644219647     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/07010404023     Document Type: Article

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