Patterns of early post-depositional and burial cementation in distal shallow-marine sandstones: Upper Cretaceous Kenilworth Member, Book Cliffs, Utah, USA

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 198, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 125-145

  Machent, Philip G ^a   Taylor, Kevin G ^a   Macquaker, Joe H S ^b   Marshall, Jim D ^c  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbonate; Cretaceous; Diagenesis; Sequence stratigraphy; Utah

Indexed keywords

BURIAL DIAGENESIS; CEMENTATION; CLAY MINERAL; CONCRETION; CRETACEOUS; DECARBOXYLATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LITHOFACIES; ORGANIC MATTER; SANDSTONE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

BOOK CLIFFS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 34247545570     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2006.12.002     Document Type: Article

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