Shallow marine event sedimentation in a volcanic arc-related setting: The Ordovician Suri Formation, Famatina range, northwest Argentina

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 105, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 63-90

  Mángano, María Gabriela ^a,b   Buatois, Luis Alberto ^a,b  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ORDOVICIAN; SEA LEVEL VARIATION; SEDIMENTATION; SHALLOW MARINE ENVIRONMENT; VOLCANISM;

ARGENTINA, LA RIOJA, FAMATINA RANGE;

EID: 0030453636     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0037-0738(95)00134-4     Document Type: Article

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