Silt injection as a mode of fossilization: A Triassic example

Palaios

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 545-554

  Boyd, Donald W ^a   Nice, David E ^b   Newell, Norman D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b Netherland Sewell and Assoc Inc   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGENESIS; FOSSILIZATION; SILT; TRIASSIC;

UNITED STATES;

BIVALVIA;

EID: 0033509647     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3515312     Document Type: Article

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