Seminoe 3, a tidally influenced lowstand wedge and its relationships with subjacent highstand and overlying transgressive deposits, Haystack mountains formation, cretaceous Western Interior, Wyoming (USA)

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 103, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 249-272

  Mellere, Donatella ^a  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DELTA; HAYSTACK MOUNTAINS FORMATION; SANDSTONE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TRANSGRESSION;

USA, WYOMING;

EID: 0029769331     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0037-0738(95)00108-5     Document Type: Article

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