Facies architecture and depositional environments of the Upper Cretaceous Kaiparowits Formation, southern Utah

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 197, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 207-233

  Roberts, Eric M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Alluvial sedimentology; Campanian; Stratigraphy; Western interior basin

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; CAMPANIAN; CHANNEL FLOW; CONGLOMERATE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FACIES; FORELAND BASIN; OROGENIC BELT; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

GRAND STAIRCASE-ESCALANTE NATIONAL MONUMENT; KAIPAROWITS PLATEAU; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; UTAH; WESTERN INTERIOR;

INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34147132788     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2006.10.001     Document Type: Article

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