Post-Miocene stratigraphy and depositional environments of valley-fill sequences at the mouth of Tampa Bay, Florida

Marine Geology

Volumn 200, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 157-170

  Ferguson, Thomas W ^a   Davis Jr , Richard A ^b  

^a Department 110 ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Depositional environments; Fining upward sequences; Lithofacies; Valley fill

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; DEPOSITION; EROSION; RIVERS; SAND;

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS;

STRATIGRAPHY;

CARBONATE PLATFORM; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; INCISED VALLEY; LITHOFACIES; NEOGENE; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; STRATIGRAPHY; VALLEY FILL;

FLORIDA; TAMPA BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141523019     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(03)00181-6     Document Type: Article

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