Tectonostratigraphy and depositional environments within upper Jurassic phosphate-bearing remnants of the San Pedro del Gallo terrane - Northeastern Mexico

Stratigraphy

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-30

  Cross Jr , Edgar K ^a   Pessagno Jr , Emile A ^b  

^a EP SOLUTIONS SA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; JURASSIC; LIMESTONE; PHOSPHATE; PLATE BOUNDARY; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33749589718     PISSN: 00262803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1484324     Document Type: Article

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