Allostratigraphic and sedimentologic applications of trace fossils to the study of incised estuarine valleys: An example from the Virgilian Tonganoxie Sandstone member of eastern Kansas

Current Research in Earth Sciences

Volumn 241, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-27

  Buatois, Luis A ^a   Mángano, M Gabriela ^a   Maples, Christopher G ^a   Lanier, William P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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