Synthesis and revision of groups within the Newark Supergroup, eastern North America

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 195-209

  Weems, Robert E ^a   Olsen, Paul E ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVEES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

DISCRETE INTERVALS; EASTERN NORTH AMERICA; GROUP BOUNDARY; MESOZOIC; RIFT BASIN; RIFT SYSTEMS; ROCK CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; TECTONIC EVENTS; JURASSIC; TRIASSIC;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

DIABASE; DIKE; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PLUTONISM; RIFT ZONE; ROCK BLOCK; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANIC ROCK; JURASSIC; NOMENCLATURE; STRATIGRAPHY; TRIASSIC;

NEWARK BASIN; UNITED STATES; NEW ENGLAND; NEW JERSEY; NEW YORK; USA;

EID: 0030820562     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1997)109<0195:SAROGW>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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