Multiple orders of relative sea-level change in an earliest Cambrian passive-margin succession, Mackenzie Mountains, Northwestern Canada

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 622-637

  MacNaughton, Robert B ^a   Dalrymple, Robert W ^a   Narbonne, Guy M ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCES; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; RELATIVE SEA-LEVEL CHANGES; SEA LEVEL VARIATIONS; SEA-LEVEL CYCLES; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; STRATIGRAPHIC UNITS;

SEA LEVEL;

CAMBRIAN; EUSTASY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

CANADA, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES, MACKENZIE MOUNTAINS; CANADA, YUKON TERRITORY, MACKENZIE MOUNTAINS;

EID: 0031450458     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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