Aggradation of gravels in tidally influenced fluvial systems: Upper Albian (Lower Cretaceous) on the cratonic margin of the North American Western Interior foreland basin

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 439-448

  Brenner, Robert L ^a   Ludvigson, Gregory A ^b   Witzke, Brian L ^b   Phillips, Preston Lee ^a   White, Timothy S ^a   Ufnar, David F ^a   González, Luis A ^a   Joeckel, R Matthew ^c   Goettemoeller, Adrian ^a   Shirk, Benjamin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Iowa Geological Survey   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; Gravels; Rivers; Tides; Western Interior Seaway

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; ALBIAN; CONGLOMERATE; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GRAVEL; PETROGRAPHY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TRANSGRESSION;

UNITED STATES; WESTERN INTERIOR SEAWAY;

ALBIA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0141527388     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0195-6671(03)00054-5     Document Type: Article

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