Depositional environments and processes in Upper Cretaceous nonmarine and marine sediments, Ocean Point dinosaur locality, North Slope, Alaska

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 499-523

  Phillips, R Lawrence ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; Depositional environments; Dinosaur occurrences; Northern Alaska; Prince Creek Formation; Schrader Bluff Formation

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DELTAIC DEPOSIT; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DINOSAUR; FACIES; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOENVIRONMENT;

ALASKA; NORTH SLOPE; UNITED STATES;

BIVALVIA; BRYOPHYTA; CONIFEROPHYTA; DINOSAURIA; EQUISETALES; FILICOPHYTA; FORAMINIFERA; FRAXINUS; INVERTEBRATA; OSTRACODA; THORACICA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0142168068     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0195-6671(03)00068-5     Document Type: Article

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