Post-middle Miocene origin of modern landforms in the eastern Piedmont of Virginia

Stratigraphy

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-48

  Weems, Robert E ^a   Edwards, Lucy E ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DINOFLAGELLATE; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; MIOCENE; TRANSGRESSION;

ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN; NORTH AMERICA; PIEDMONT [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 34547792265     PISSN: 00262803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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