Brackish and marine mollusks of the Hell Creek Formation of North Dakota: Evidence for a persisting Cretaceous seaway

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 361, Issue , 2002, Pages 271-296

  Hartman, Joseph H ^a   Kirkland, James I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS;

BRACKISH WATER; MARINE CONDITIONS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE MOLLUSK; NORTH AMERICAN; SHORT-LIVED SPECIES; SOUTH DAKOTAS; WESTERN INTERIOR SEAS;

MOLLUSCS;

ARTHROPOD; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BIVALVE; CRETACEOUS; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; LITHOFACIES; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOLLUSC; PALEOCENE; SHORELINE CHANGE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

NORTH DAKOTA; SOUTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN INTERIOR;

EID: 17244366798     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2361-2.271     Document Type: Article

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