Cenomanian-Turonian coastal record in SW Utah, U.S.A.: Orbital-scale transgressive-regressive events during oceanic anoxic event II

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 77, Issue 9-10, 2007, Pages 731-756

  Laurin, Jiři ^a   Sageman, Bradley B ^b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITION; LIME; LIMESTONE; SEA LEVEL; STRATIGRAPHY;

CENOMANIAN-TURONIAN; OCEANIC ANOXIC EVENT; OCEANOGRAPHIC MODELS; RECURRENCE INTERVALS; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; SHORELINE POSITION; STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CENOMANIAN-TURONIAN BOUNDARY; DEPOSITION; LIMESTONE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SHORELINE CHANGE; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 35448945280     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2007.076     Document Type: Article

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