Stratigraphy and depositional environment of nonmarine facies of Frontier Formation, Eastern Pioneer Mountains, southwestern Montana

Mountain Geologist

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 115-125

  Dyman, T S ^a   Tysdal, R G ^a  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; STRATIGRAPHY; TERRESTRIAL SEDIMENT;

USA, MONTANA, PIONEER MOUNTAINS;

EID: 0031664218     PISSN: 0027254X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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