Climatic control of fluvial-lacustrine cyclicity in the Cretaceous Cordilleran Foreland Basin, western United States

Sedimentology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 677-689

  Drummond, Carl N ^a   Wilkinson, Bruce H ^b   Lohmann, Kyger C ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; CYCLICITY; GANNETT GROUP; LAKE WATER CHEMISTRY; LIMESTONE; PALAEOCLIMATE;

USA, WYOMING;

EID: 0029750068     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.1996.tb02020.x     Document Type: Article

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