Correlation of Upper Cretaceous strata from Lima Peaks area to Madison Range, southwestern Montana and southeastern Idaho, USA

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 751-766

  Dyman, T S ^a   Tysdal, R G ^a   Perry Jr , W J ^a   Obradovich, J D ^a   Haley, J C ^b   Nichols, D J ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation; Cretaceous; Frontier Formation; Montana; USA

Indexed keywords

CONIACIAN; GYMNOCEPHALUS CERNUUS; INOCERAMUS; SCAPHITES;

ARGON-40/ARGON-39 DATING; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

USA, IDAHO; USA, MONTANA;

EID: 0031433736     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cres.1997.0079     Document Type: Article

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