Campanian coastal plain sediments in southeastern Missouri and southern Illinois - Significance to the early geologic history of the northern Mississippi Embayment

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 687-696

  Harrison, Richard W ^a   Litwin, Ronald J ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Campanian; Coffee Sand; Cretaceous Interior Seaway; Maastrichtian; McNairy Sand; Mississippi Embayment; Palynology; Post Creek Formation; Tuscaloosa Formation

Indexed keywords

STRIGIFORMES;

CAMPANIAN; COASTAL PLAIN; CRETACEOUS; MAASTRICHTIAN; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; PALYNOLOGY;

USA, ILLINOIS; USA, MISSOURI;

EID: 0031414286     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cres.1997.0080     Document Type: Article

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