Late Mississippian to early Pennsylvanian paleokarst in East-central Tennessee: Field, petrographic, and stable isotope evidence

Southeastern Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 189-204

  Driese, Steven G ^a   Caudill, Michael R ^a,b   Srinivasan, Krishnan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^c EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MISSISSIPPIAN; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031826336     PISSN: 00383678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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