Magnetic polarity stratigraphy and correlation of the Arikaree Group, Arikareean (late Oligocene-early Miocene) of northwestern Nebraska

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 325, Issue , 1998, Pages 143-165

  MacFadden, Bruce J ^a   Hunt Jr , Robert M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM COMPOUNDS; MAMMALS; STRATIGRAPHY;

AGE DETERMINATION; EARLY MIOCENE; LAND MAMMALS; LATE OLIGOCENE; NORMAL ZONE; ROCK SEQUENCE; TIME-SCALES; VOLCANICLASTIC SEDIMENTS;

MAGNETIC POLARITY;

AGE DETERMINATION; CORRELATION; FOSSIL RECORD; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAMMAL; MIOCENE; PALEOMAGNETISM; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

NEBRASKA; NORTH AMERICA; SIOUX COUNTY [NEBRASKA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 2642579915     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2325-6.143     Document Type: Article

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