Tectonically induced climate and its control on the distribution of depositional systems in a continental foreland basin, Cloverly and Lakota Formations (Lower Cretaceous) of Wyoming, U.S.A.

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 202, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 730-753

  Elliott Jr , William S ^a   Suttner, Lee J ^b   Pratt, Lisa M ^b  

^a SOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloverly; Continental; Cretaceous; Foreland basin; Rain shadow

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; BIOTURBATION; CHERT; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CONGLOMERATE; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FLOODPLAIN; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FORELAND BASIN; MUDSTONE; SANDSTONE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 36148994003     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2007.09.001     Document Type: Article

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