Sequence stratigraphic and sedimentologic significance of biogenic structures from a late Paleozoic marginal- to open-marine reservoir, Morrow Sandstone, subsurface of southwest Kansas, USA

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 152, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 99-132

  Buatois, Luis A ^a,b   Mángano, M Gabriela ^a,b   Alissa, Abdulrahman ^a   Carr, Timothy R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Estuarine valleys; Kansas; Pennsylvanian; Shallow marine; Trace fossils

Indexed keywords

BIOGENIC STRUCTURE; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ICHNOLOGY; MARINE SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036732357     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(01)00287-1     Document Type: Article

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