Characteristics, stratigraphic architecture, and time framework of multi-order mixed siliciclastic and carbonate depositional sequences, outcropping Cisco Group (Late Pennsylvanian and Early Permian), Eastern Shelf, north-central Texas, USA

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 154, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 53-87

  Yang, Wan ^a   Kominz, Michelle A ^b  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbonates; Pennsylvanian; Sequence stratigraphy; Siliciclastics; Texas

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; PENNSYLVANIAN; PERMIAN; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037211915     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(02)00100-8     Document Type: Article

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