Facies and the Architecture of Estuarine Tidal Bar in the Lower Cretaceous Mcmurray Formation, Central Athabasca Oil Sands, Alberta, Canada

In this study, data obtained from the Lower Cretaceous McMurray Formation in the central Athabasca Oil Sands, northeastern Alberta, Canada, are examined and used to establish the architecture of stacked fluvial and estuarine tidal bar deposits. A total of 13 distinguishable facies (F1−F7,...

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Main Authors: Mingming Tang, Kexin Zhang, Jixin Huang, Shuangfang Lu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-05-01
Series:Energies
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/9/1769