Architecture and origin of an amalgamated fluvial sheet sand, lower Castlegate Formation, Book Cliffs, Utah

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 197, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 291-311

  McLaurin, Brett T ^a   Steel, Ron J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggradation; Alluvial architecture; Barforms; Book Cliffs; Clastic sediments; Paleochannel

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; AVULSION; BRAIDED RIVER; DEPOSITION; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; PALEOCHANNEL; SANDSTONE; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

BOOK CLIFFS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34147195943     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2006.10.005     Document Type: Article

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