Scrutiny of a global climate model for Upper Mississippian depositional sequences in the central Appalachian foreland basin, U.S.A

Journal of Geology

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 739-747

  Beuthin, Jack D ^a   Blake Jr, Bascombe M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b West Virginia Geology and Economy Survey   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; GLACIOEUSTACY; LOWSTAND; MISSISSIPPIAN; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036994388     PISSN: 00221376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/342867     Document Type: Article

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