Late ordovician mass extinction: Sedimentologic, cyclostratigraphic, and biostratigraphic records from platform and basin successions, Central Nevada

Brigham Young University Geology Studies

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 79-103

  Finney, Stanley C ^a   Cooper, John D ^b   Berry, William B N ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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