Transgressive wave ravinement on an epicontinental shelf as recorded by an Upper Pennsylvanian soil-nodule conglomerate-sandstone unit, Kansas and Oklahoma, U.S.A.

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 197, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 189-205

  Yang, Wan ^a,b  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Conglomerate; Pennsylvanian; Transgressive systems tract; Wave ravinement

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CLAST; CONGLOMERATE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; LIMESTONE; MICRITE; PALEOSOL; PENNSYLVANIAN; QUARTZ; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TEXTURE; TRANSGRESSION;

KANSAS; NORTH AMERICA; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34147093690     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2006.10.002     Document Type: Article

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