A sporomorph ecogroup model for the Northwest European Jurassic - Lower Cretaceous II : Application to an exploration well from the Dutch North Sea

Geologie en Mijnbouw/Netherlands Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 81-92

  Abbink, O A ^a   Van Konijnenburg Van Cittert, J H A ^b   Van der Zwan, C J ^c   Visscher, H ^a,b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c SIEP SEPTAR   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Exploration geology; Late jurassic; Palaeoclimate; Palynology; Sea level; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; JURASSIC; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 9744277442     PISSN: 00167746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0016774600020059     Document Type: Article

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