Facies architecture and paleohydrology of a synrift succession in the Early Cretaceous Choyr Basin, southeastern Mongolia

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 226-240

  Ito, Makoto ^a   Matsukawa, Masaki ^b   Saito, Takahio ^a,d   Nichols, Douglas J ^c  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO GAKUGEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Choyr Basin; Facies architecture; Khuren Dukh; Lower Cretaceous; Mongolia; Paleohydrology; Sedimentology; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; PALEOHYDROLOGY; RIFT ZONE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; MONGOLIA;

EID: 33644897855     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: 1095998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2005.11.005     Document Type: Article

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