Use of K-bentonite beds as time-planes for high-resolution lithofacies analysis and assessment of net rock accumulation rate: An example from the upper Middle Ordovician of eastern North America

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 321, Issue , 1997, Pages 11-21

  Leslie, Stephen A ^a   Bergström, Stig M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTONITE; DEPOSITION; LITHOLOGY; SANDSTONE; STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANOES;

ACCUMULATION RATES; CLASTIC SEDIMENTS; EASTERN NORTH AMERICA; LITHOFACIES ANALYSIS; LITHOFACIES CHANGES; SEDIMENTATION RATES; STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK; UPPER MISSISSIPPI;

SHALE;

BENTONITE; COMPACTION; EROSION; INLAND SEA; LITHOFACIES; ORDOVICIAN; POTASSIUM; SEDIMENTATION RATE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; SUBAERIAL EXPOSURE; SUBSIDENCE; TRAPPING; WATER DEPTH;

KENTUCKY; MISSISSIPPI VALLEY; SEVIER BASIN; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 0003089431     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2321-3.11     Document Type: Article

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