Style contrast between forced regressive and lowstand/transgressive wedges in the Campanian of south-central Wyoming (Hatfield Member of the Haystack Mountains Formation)

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 172, Issue , 2000, Pages 141-162

  Mellere, Donatella ^a   Steel, Ronald ^b  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMPANIAN; CRETACEOUS; REGRESSION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SYSTEMS TRACT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034072563     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.172.01.07     Document Type: Article

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