Sequence architecture within a low-accommodation setting: An example from the Permian of the Galilee and Bowen basins, Queensland, Australia

Jonathan P. Allen; Christopher R. Fielding

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Sequence architecture within a low-accommodation setting: An example from the Permian of the Galilee and Bowen basins, Queensland, Australia

Jonathan P. Allen Christopher R. Fielding

AAPG Bulletin Vol. 91 No. 11 pp. 1503-1539 · American Association of Petroleum Geologists AAPG/Datapages

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Published: Nov 01, 2007
Vol/Issue: 91(11)
Pages: 1503-1539

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Jonathan P. Allen

1Department of Geosciences, 214 Bessey Hall, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0340; jallen19@bigred.unl.edu

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Christopher R. Fielding

2Department of Geosciences, 214 Bessey Hall, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0340; cfielding2@unl.edu

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Jonathan P. Allen, Christopher R. Fielding (2007). Sequence architecture within a low-accommodation setting: An example from the Permian of the Galilee and Bowen basins, Queensland, Australia. AAPG Bulletin, 91(11), 1503-1539. https://doi.org/10.1306/07020706131

Sequence architecture within a low-accommodation setting: An example from the Permian of the Galilee and Bowen basins, Queensland, Australia

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