Controls on stylolite development: Morphologic, lithologic, and temporal evidence from bedding-parallel and transverse stylolites from the U.S. appalachians

Journal of Geology

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 59-73

  Andrews, Lynn M ^a   Railsback, L Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHOLOGIC HETEROGENEITY; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; STYLOLITE;

USA, APPALACHIANS;

EID: 0030920179     PISSN: 00221376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/606147     Document Type: Article

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