Submarine gravity slides on the Paleozoic continental slope at the western edge of the Great Basin, east-cental California: A mechanism for development of unconformities in slope environments

Stratigraphy

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 139-149

  Stevens, Calvin H ^a   Stone, Paul ^b  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DEVONIAN; DOLOMITE; PALEOZOIC; SEA LEVEL; SILURIAN; SUBMARINE SLOPE;

BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE; CALIFORNIA; GREAT BASIN; INYO MOUNTAINS; NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846425705     PISSN: 00262803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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