Genesis and geometry of the Meiklejohn Peak lime mud-mound, bare mountain quadrangle, Nevada, USA: Ordovician limestone with submarine frost heave structures- A possible response to gas clathrate hydrate evolution

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 145, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 189-213

  Krause, Federico F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon and oxygen isotopes; Frost heave; Gas clathrate hydrates; Meiklejohn peak; Mud mound; Stromatactis and zebra structures

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE RAMP; DEGASSING; FROST HEAVE; GAS HYDRATE; LIMESTONE; MUD MOUND; ORDOVICIAN;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035688369     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(01)00148-8     Document Type: Article

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