Recognition of maximum flooding events in mixed siliciclastic-carbonate systems: Key to global chronostratigraphic correlation

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 351-354

  Mancini, Ernest A ^a   Tew, Berry H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b Geological Survey of Alabama   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; FLOODS; PRODUCTIVITY; STRATIGRAPHY;

CONTINENTAL SHELVES; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCES; MICROFOSSIL ASSEMBLAGES; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; SEQUENCE-STRATIGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION; SILICICLASTIC CARBONATES; SILICICLASTIC INFLUX; SILICICLASTIC INPUT;

CARBONATION;

ACCUMULATION RATE; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; FLOODING; MICROFOSSIL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PASSIVE MARGIN; SHORELINE; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; MAXIMUM FLOODING EVENT; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SILICICLASTIC-CARBONATE SEDIMENT;

EID: 0030988885     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0351:ROMFEI>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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