The influence of salt withdrawal subsidence on palaeosol maturity and cyclic fluvial deposition in the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation: Castle Valley, Utah

Sedimentology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1319-1345

  Prochnow, Shane J ^a   Atchley, Stacy C ^a   Boucher, Thomas E ^b   Nordt, Lee C ^a   Hudec, Michael R ^c  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHESAPEAKE ENERGY CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Halokinesis; Minibasin; Palaeopedology; Paradox Basin; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; LITHOFACIES; PALEOSOL; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TRIASSIC;

CASTLE VALLEY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 33751185591     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2006.00821.x     Document Type: Article

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