Depositional environments and fluvial system changes in the dinosaur-bearing Sânpetru Formation (Late Cretaceous, Romania): Post-orogenic sedimentation in an active extensional basin

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 192, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 183-205

  Therrien, François ^a  

^a ROYAL TYRRELL MUSEUM OF PALAEONTOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Braided stream; Dinosaur extinction; Ha eg Basin; Paleoenvironmental change; Sheetflood; Southern Carpathians

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; BRAIDED RIVER; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; OROGENY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CARPATHIANS; EURASIA; EUROPE; HATEG BASIN; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

DINOSAURIA;

EID: 33750964163     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2006.04.002     Document Type: Article

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