Late Cretaceous base level lowering in Campanian and Maastrichtian depositional sequences, Kure Beach, North Carolina

Stratigraphy

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 195-216

  Harris, W Burleigh ^a   Self Trail, Jean M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMPANIAN; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; LITHOLOGY; MAASTRICHTIAN; NANOFOSSIL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

KURE BEACH; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33847041791     PISSN: 00262803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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