Lithostratigraphy and geochronology of fills in small playa basins on the Southern High Plains, United States

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 108, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 953-965

  Holliday, Vance T ^a   Hovorka, Susan D ^b   Gustavson, Thomas C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CARBONATION; EROSION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; SILT; STRATIGRAPHY;

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; HISTORY AND FUTURE; LACUSTRINE DELTAS; LACUSTRINE DEPOSITS; LITHO-STRATIGRAPHIC; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PEDOGENIC CARBONATES; REGIONAL AQUIFERS; FILLS; SMALL PLAYA BASINS;

DEPOSITS; GEOLOGY;

AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; ARIDITY; BASIN FILL; BEDROCK; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEFLATION; DISSOLUTION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOZOIC; PLAYA; FACIES DISTRIBUTION; PLAYA BASIN; QUATERNARY; RADIOCARBON DATING;

GREAT PLAINS; NEW MEXICO; TEXAS; UNITED STATES; USA, NEW MEXICO, HIGH PLAINS; USA, TEXAS, HIGH PLAINS;

EID: 0030208656     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1996)108<0953:LAGOFI>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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