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Fluvial Sand Bodies

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Sandstone Depositional Models for Exploration for Fossil Fuels

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The sediments of fluvial systems have interested geologists for some time. A large body of literature has grown up around the problems of fluvial processes (Leopold et al., 1964; Miall, 1978a), fluvial sediments (Allen, 1965; Miall, 1978a), and fluvial facies models (Miall, 1978a, Reading, 1979). Fluvial sandstone beds are known to contain petroleum reservoirs (Nanz, 1954; Harms, 1966; Berg, 1968; MacKenzie, 1972) and also form host rocks for the well-known sandstone-type uranium deposits found in the Rocky Mountains and the Gulf Coastal Plain (Fischer, 1970, 1974; Galloway, 1977).

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Klein, G.d. (1982). Fluvial Sand Bodies. In: Sandstone Depositional Models for Exploration for Fossil Fuels. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9758-1_2

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