Palustrine deposits on a Late Devonian coastal plain - Sedimentary attributes and implications for concepts of carbonate sequence stratigraphy

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 292-309

  MacNeil, Alex J ^a   Jones, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; COMPLEX NETWORKS; KAOLINITE; LIME; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; WETLANDS;

COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS; COASTAL REGIONS; CRACK NETWORKS; MARINE DEPOSITS; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SHORELINE POSITION; TYPE I SEQUENCE BOUNDARIES;

DEPOSITS;

CARBONATE SEDIMENT; DEVONIAN; MARSH; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES;

CHARACEAE;

EID: 33644809381     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2006.028     Document Type: Article

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