Palaeoenvironments associated with caddisfly-dominated microbial-carbonate mounds from the Tipton Shale Member of the Green River Formation: Eocene Lake Gosiute

Sedimentology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 661-699

  Leggitt, Leroy V ^a   Biaggi, Roberto E ^a,b   Buchheim, Paul H ^b  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Universidad Adventista del Plata   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Avian eggshell; Caddisfly; Green River Formation; Stable isotopes; Tipton Shale Member; Trichoptera

Indexed keywords

CADDISFLY; EGGSHELL; EOCENE; FOSSIL; LAKE LEVEL; MICROSTRUCTURE; MUD MOUND; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; REGRESSION; STABLE ISOTOPE; TRANSGRESSION;

GREEN RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

AVES; GASTROPODA; OSTRACODA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 34249037679     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2007.00854.x     Document Type: Article

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