High-resolution stratigraphy of an underfilled lake basin: Wilkins Peak Member, Eocene Green River Formation, Wyoming, U.S.A

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 76, Issue 11-12, 2006, Pages 1197-1214

  Pietras, Jeffrey T ^a,b   Carroll, Alan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LAKES; METALS; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

DIFFERENTIAL SUBSIDENCE; GEOMORPHIC PROCESS; GREEN RIVER FORMATION; LACUSTRINE BASINS; SEDIMENTARY FACIES; STRATIGRAPHIC RECORDS; STRATIGRAPHIC UNITS; TECTONIC INFLUENCE;

DEPOSITION;

AGGRADATION; DEPOSITION; EOCENE; EVAPORITE; FACIES; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; STRATIGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

WALTHERIA;

EID: 33845607643     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2006.096     Document Type: Article

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