Lower and lower Middle Pennsylvanian fluvial to estuarine deposition, central Appalachian basin: Effects of eustasy, tectonics, and climate

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 303-317

  Greb, Stephen F ^a   Chesnut Jr , Donald R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; ESTUARIES; FAULTING; METALS; PEAT; PROVEN RESERVES; RIVERS; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WEATHERING;

ACCOMMODATION SPACE; BASINAL SEDIMENTS; CLIMATIC CONTROLS; PEAT ACCUMULATION; REGIONAL RESPONSE; SANDSTONE COMPOSITION; SEDIMENTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSGRESSIVE DEPOSITS; APPALACHIAN BASIN; COARSE-GRAINED; FLUVIAL DEPOSITS; PENNSYLVANIANS;

SAND; FAULTING;

ALLEGHANIAN; OUTCROP; PEAT; PENNSYLVANIAN; PLATE TECTONICS; QUARTZ; REWORKING; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTATION; STACKING; THINNING; WEATHERING RATE; ESTUARINE DEPOSIT; EUSTASY; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; PALAEOCLIMATE; TECTONICS;

APPALACHIAN BASIN; AUSTRALIA; GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; IZABAL; LIVINGSTON; NORTHERN TERRITORY; PINE CREEK; APPALACHIANS; USA;

EID: 0029729225     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1996)108<0303:LALMPF>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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