Feast to famine: Sediment supply control on Laramide basin fill

Geology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 197-200

  Carroll, Alan R ^a   Chetel, Lauren M ^a   Smith, M Elliot ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Eocene; Fort Union Formation; Green River Formation; Lacustrine; Paleocene

Indexed keywords

EOCENE; FORT UNION FORMATION; GREEN RIVER FORMATION; LACUSTRINE; LARAMIDE BASIN FILL; PALEOCENE; SEDIMENT SUPPLY CONTROL;

EROSION; LITHOLOGY; ROCKS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; SETTLING TANKS; TECTONICS; FOOD SUPPLY; LAKES; METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

PETROLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

BASIN FILL; EOCENE; PALEOCENE; SEDIMENTATION; CONGLOMERATE; CRETACEOUS; EPHEMERAL LAKE; EXHUMATION; FORELAND BASIN; LARAMIDE OROGENY; MUDSTONE; QUARTZITE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SWAMP; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UPLIFT;

GREEN RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33645237751     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G22148.1     Document Type: Article

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