Basement tectonics in the southeastern part of the Illinois basin and its effect on Paleozoic sedimentation

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 308, Issue , 1996, Pages 109-126

  Furer, Lloyd C ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; EARTHQUAKES; GRANITE; OIL FIELDS; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BASEMENT FAULTS; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; GEOLOGIC FEATURES; MAGNETIC STUDIES; REGIONAL TECTONICS; SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA; STRATIGRAPHIC UNITS; THICKNESS DISTRIBUTIONS;

FAULTING;

BASEMENT ROCK; FAULT ZONE; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOZOIC; PENNSYLVANIAN; PRECAMBRIAN; PROTEROZOIC; SEDIMENTATION; TECTONIC SETTING;

ILLINOIS BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0345463862     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2308-6.109     Document Type: Article

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