An Early Silurian sequence boundary in Illinois and Wisconsin

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 306, Issue , 1996, Pages 177-185

  Kluessendorf, Joanne ^a   Mikulic, Donald G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SEA LEVEL;

ARGILLACEOUS SEDIMENTS; HUMID CONDITIONS; MICROBIOTAS; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SILURIAN; SOUTHERN LATITUDES; STRATIGRAPHIC MARKERS; WISCONSIN;

STRATIGRAPHY;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; GLACIATION; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; KARST HYDROLOGY; LITHOLOGY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SILURIAN; TRANSGRESSION;

UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 0012627553     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2306-X.177     Document Type: Article

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