Carbonate component chemostratigraphy and depositional history of the Ordovician Decorah Formation, Upper Mississippi Valley

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 306, Issue , 1996, Pages 67-86

  Ludvigson, Greg A ^a,b   Jacobson, Stephen R ^c   Witzke, Brian J ^a,d   González, Luis A ^b  

^a Geological Survey Bureau   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; CARBONATION; DEPOSITS; ISOTOPES; SURFACE WATERS;

CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC SIGNALS; MARINE CARBONATES; MARINE TRANSGRESSION; PHOTOSYNTHETIC PRODUCTIVITY; UPPER MISSISSIPPI; WATER/ROCK RATIO;

ORGANIC CARBON;

CARBONATE; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; DIAGENESIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ORDOVICIAN; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; WATER-ROCK INTERACTION;

MISSISSIPPI VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038686754     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2306-X.67     Document Type: Article

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