Early Permian silt-bed fluvial sedimentation in the Orogrande basin of the Ancestral Rocky Mountains, New Mexico, USA

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 160, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 159-178

  Mack, Greg H ^a   Leeder, Mike ^b   Perez Arlucea, Marta ^c   Bailey, Brendon D J ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ancestral rocky mountains; Fluvial sedimentology; Palaeoclimate; Paleosols; Permian; Silt bed river

Indexed keywords

BASIN FILL; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; PALEOCLIMATE; PANGAEA; PERMIAN; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE;

NEW MEXICO; OROGRANDE BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0041654626     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(02)00375-5     Document Type: Article

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