Supergroup stratigraphy of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains (Middle? Jurassic through holocene, Eastern North America)

Southeastern Geology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 191-216

  Weems, Robert E ^a   Self Trail, Jean M ^a   Edwards, Lucy E ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL PLAIN; HOLOCENE; JURASSIC; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN; GULF COASTAL PLAIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 2942655400     PISSN: 00383678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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