Depositional settings, correlation, and age carboniferous rocks in the western Brooks Range, Alaska

Economic Geology

Volumn 99, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1355-1384

  Dumoulin, Julie A ^a   Harris, Anita G ^a   Blome, Charles D ^b   Young, Lorne E ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; ORE DEPOSIT GEOLOGY; PHOSPHATES; QUARTZ; SAND; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHALE; SILT; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

ALLOCHTHONS; KUNA FORMATION; PALEONTOLOGY; SULFIDE DEPOSITS;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

ORE DEPOSIT; REGIONAL GEOLOGY;

ALASKA; BROOKS RANGE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 15744405385     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.99.7.1355     Document Type: Article

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