Geological setting and paleobotany of the Joffre Bridge Roadcut fossil locality (Late Paleocene), Red Deer Valley, Alberta

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2073-2084

  Hoffman, Georgia L ^a,b   Stockey, Ruth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Hoffman Consulting Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FLOODPLAIN; FLUVIAL PROCESS; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; PALEOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SWAMP;

ALBERTA; CANADA; RED DEER VALLEY;

EID: 0033498519     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e99-095     Document Type: Article

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