Unconventional distribution of facies in a continental rift basin: The Pliocene - Pleistocene Mangas Basin, south-western New Mexico, USA

Sedimentology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1187-1205

  Mack, Greg H ^a   Stout, Deanna M ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alluvial fan; Basin architecture; Continental rift; Fluvial; Lacustrine; Pliocene

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ALLUVIAL FAN; FACIES; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY;

NEW MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745248686     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2005.00735.x     Document Type: Article

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