Sequence stratigraphy and long-term paleoceanographic change in the Middle and Upper Ordovician of the eastern United States

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 306, Issue , 1996, Pages 117-129

  Holland, Steven M ^a   Patzkowsky, Mark E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCES; HIGHSTAND SYSTEMS TRACT; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC UNITS; NORTHERN APPALACHIANS; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SILICICLASTIC SEDIMENTS; SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS; TRANSGRESSIVE SYSTEMS TRACTS;

STRATIGRAPHY;

FLOODING; LITHOLOGY; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PHOSPHATIZATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; TACONIC OROGENY; TRANSGRESSION; TURBIDITY; UPWELLING;

APPALACHIANS; CINCINNATI; OHIO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 3242885404     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2306-X.117     Document Type: Article

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