Bedding rhythms and cyclic sequences as documented in organic carbon - Carbonate patterns, Upper Cretaceous, Western Interior, U.S.

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 102, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 131-154

  Ricken, Werner ^a  

^a Department of Geology ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDDING; CARBONATE; CRETACEOUS; CYCLICITY; ORGANIC MATTER; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

USA, WESTERN INTERIOR SEAWAY;

EID: 0029731755     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0037-0738(95)00060-7     Document Type: Article

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