Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of Neoptoterozoic and Cambrian units across a craton-margin hinge zone, southeastern California, and implications for the early evolution of the Cordilleran margin

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 141-142, Issue , 2001, Pages 501-522

  Fedo, Christopher M ^a   Cooper, John D ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Neoproterozoic; Passive margin; Rift; Rodinia; Sauk sequence

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CAMBRIAN; PASSIVE MARGIN; PROTEROZOIC; RIFT ZONE; RODINIA; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034932769     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(01)00088-4     Document Type: Article

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