Middle Devonian to Early Carboniferous event stratigraphy of Devils Gate and Northern Antelope Range sections, Nevada, U.S.A

CFS Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg

Volumn , Issue 242, 2003, Pages 187-207

  Sandberg, Charles A ^a   Morrow, Jared R ^b   Poole, Forrest G ^a   Ziegler, Willi ^c  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

^c SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antler Orogeny; Conodont biochronology; Event stratigraphy; Late Devonian; Paleotectonics; Sedimentation

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; DEVONIAN; EVENT STRATIGRAPHY; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

UNITED STATES;

ASPERULA; ENTOVALVA;

EID: 0038164597     PISSN: 03414116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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