Episodes of carbonate deposition in a siliciclastic-dominated fluvial sequence, Eocene-Oligocene White River Group, South Dakota and Nebraska

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 325, Issue , 1998, Pages 93-116

  Evans, James E ^a   Welzenbach, Linda C ^b  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATION; DEPOSITS; FERTILIZERS; GROUNDWATER; LIME; MOLLUSCS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

AQUATIC MACROPHYTES; CARBONATE DEPOSITION; DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEM; FAULTS , FRACTURES; GROUND WATER DISCHARGE; PALEOGROUNDWATER FLOW; REGIONAL GROUNDWATER; STRUCTURAL FEATURE;

LIMESTONE;

CHAROPHYTE; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; LIMESTONE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; SILICIC ACID; UNROOFING; VERTEBRATE;

BLACK HILLS; NEBRASKA; SOUTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES; WHITE RIVER [UNITED STATES];

EID: 21044457190     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2325-6.93     Document Type: Article

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