Graphic correlation of Middle Ordovician graptolite shale, southern Appalachians: An approach for examining the subsidence and migration of a Taconic foreland basin

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 355-371

  Finney, Stanley C ^a   Grubb, Barbara J ^b   Hatcher Jr , Robert D ^c,d  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Raymond M Alf Museum of Paleontology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; SHALE; STRATIGRAPHY;

AGE DIFFERENCES; ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; CARBONATE PLATFORMS; FORELAND BASIN; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS; TEMPORAL INFORMATION; VALLEY AND RIDGE; GRAPTOLITES; ORDOVICIAN; APPALACHIANS; MIDDLE ORDOVICIAN GRAPTOLITE SHALE; MIGRATION; SUBSIDENCE; TACONIC FORELAND BASIN;

SHALE; GEOLOGY;

ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBONATE PLATFORM; DIACHRONISM; FORELAND BASIN; GRAPTOLITE; ORDOVICIAN; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PRECISION; SHALE; SUBSIDENCE; CONTINENTAL ARC; TACONIC OROGENY;

ALABAMA; APPALACHIANS; GEORGIA; LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS; SUNDA ISLES; TENNESSEE; TIMOR; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA; USA;

EID: 0029750143     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1996)108<0355:GCOMOG>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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