Taphonomic signature as a function of environmental process: Shells and shell beds in a hurricane-influenced inlet on the Texas coast

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 72, Issue C, 1989, Pages 317-356

  Davies, David J ^a   Powell, Eric N ^a   Stanton Jr , Robert J ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABRASION; BREAKAGE; BURIAL DEPTH; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DISSOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; HURRICANE; SHELL BED; SHELL ORIENTATION; SHELL SOURCE; SIZE SORTING; TAPHONOMY;

USA, TEXAS, SAN LUIS PASS;

EID: 0024911948     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-0182(89)90150-8     Document Type: Article

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