Depositional environments, organic carbon accumulation, and solar-forcing cyclicity in smackover formation lime mudstones, Northern Gulf Coast

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 760-774

  Heydari, Ezat ^a,c,d   Wade, William J ^a,b,e,f,j   Andersonb, Laurie C ^a,g,h,i  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LSS International   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Tennessee Division of Geology   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^h BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^j University of Wisconsin ^*

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDROCARBONS; PLANTS (BOTANY); RIVERS; ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; WATER;

ANOXIA; BIOTURBATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; LAMINA SETS; LITHOFACIES; ORGANIC CARBON; SMACKOVER LIME MUDSTONES; SOLAR FORCING CYCLICITY; STORM DEPOSITS; VARVES;

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

ANOXIA; CARBON; CYCLIC SEDIMENTATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; JURASSIC; LAMINATION; SOLAR FORCING;

USA, GULF COAST;

EID: 0031136217     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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