A comparative analysis of the ichnology of wave- and river-dominated allomembers of the Upper Cretaceous Dunvegan Formation

Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 51-73

  Gingras, Murray K ^a   MacEachern, James A ^b   Pemberton, S George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTURBATION; CRETACEOUS; DELTAIC SEDIMENT; ICHOLOGY;

CANADA, ALBERTA;

EID: 0031823521     PISSN: 00074802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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