Cherty carbonate facies of the Montoya Group, southern New Mexico and western Texas and its regional correlatives: A record of Late Ordovician paleoceanography on southern Laurentia

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 210, Issue 2-4, 2004, Pages 367-384

  Pope, Michael C ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chert; Eustasy; Glaciation; Phosphate; Upwelling

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE RAMP; EUSTACY; LAURENTIA; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY;

NEW MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

LAURENTIA;

EID: 3342932418     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2004.02.035     Document Type: Conference Paper

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