Life and death in a Late Cretaceous dune field, Nemegt basin, Mongolia

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 27-30

  Loope, David B ^a   Dingus, Lowell ^b   Swisher III, Carl C ^c   Minjin, Chuluun ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^d Mongolian Technical University   (Mongolia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; DEPOSITION; MAMMALS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM;

ALLUVIAL FANS; CLIMATIC CHANGES; CLIMATIC EPISODES; DUNE FIELDS; HEAVY RAINFALL; LATE CRETACEOUS; LIFE AND DEATH; RED SANDSTONE;

SANDSTONE;

ALLUVIAL FAN; CALCITE; CLAY; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITION; DINOSAUR; DUNE FIELD; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; SANDSTONE; SKELETON; TRACKWAY; FAN DEVELOPMENT; RED SANDSTONE; VERTEBERATE FOSSIL;

GOBI DESERT; MONGOLIA; UKHAA TOLGOD;

EID: 0031961098     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0027:LADIAL>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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