Recognition and implications of Eocene tufas and travertines in the Chadron Formation, White River group, Badlands of South Dakota

Sedimentology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 771-789

  Evans, James E ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Badlands; Black Hills; Palaeohydrology; Spring deposits; Travertine; Tufa

Indexed keywords

EOCENE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; TRAVERTINE; TUFA;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033386813     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.1999.00250.x     Document Type: Article

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