Late Mississippian (late meramecian-chesterian), glacio-eustatic sequence development on an active distal Foreland Ramp, Kentucky, U.S.A.

AAPG Memoir

Volumn , Issue 83, 2005, Pages 35-55

  Al Tawil, Aus ^a   Read, J Fred ^b  

^a SAUDI ARAMCO   (Saudi Arabia)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORELAND BASIN; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; GLACIOEUSTACY; GONDWANA; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; KARSTIFICATION; MISSISSIPPIAN; PALEOSOL; RED BED; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

APPALACHIAN BASIN; ILLINOIS BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548598181     PISSN: 02718529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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