The Port Morant Formation (Upper Pleistocene, Jamaica): High resolution sedimentology and paleoenvironmental analysis of a mixed carbonate clastic lagoonal succession

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 144, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 291-306

  Mitchell, Simon F ^a   Pickerill, Ron K ^b   Stemann, Thomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coral reefs; Lagoon sedimentation; Mixed clastic carbonate sedimentology; Pleistocene; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CLASTIC SEDIMENT; LAGOONAL SEDIMENTATION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SYSTEMS TRACT;

JAMAICA;

EID: 0035198386     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(01)00101-4     Document Type: Article

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