Stratigraphy and chronology of Upper Cretaceous-lower Paleogene strata in Bolivia and northwest Argentina

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 709-727

  Sempere, T ^a   Butler, R F ^b   Richards, D R ^b   Marshall, L G ^c   Sharp, W ^d   Swisher III, C C ^d  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA LEVEL; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONICS;

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; INTERNAL DEFORMATION; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; NORTHWEST ARGENTINA; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC ROTATIONS; OLIGOCENE; PALEOCENE; PALEOGENE; UPPER CRETACEOUS;

STRATIGRAPHY;

BATHOLITH; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY; DANIAN; EMPLACEMENT; EOCENE; FORELAND BASIN; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAASTRICHTIAN; PALEONTOLOGY; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSGRESSION; UNCONFORMITY; CRETACEOUS; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALAEOGENE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHY;

ALTIPLANO; ARGENTINA; BOLIVIA; CORDILLERA ORIENTAL;

EID: 0030856273     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1997)109<0709:SACOUC>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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