A field guide to portions of the Jurassic Fernie-Kootenay Trans-Canada Highway section, Banff, Alberta: New sedimentological and structural observations and interpretations

Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-18

  Cant, Douglas J ^a   Stockmal, Glen S ^b  

^a Doug Cant Geological Consulting   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

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JURASSIC; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CANADA;

EID: 0033017833     PISSN: 00074802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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