The Chuska erg: Paleogeomorphic and paleoclimatic implications of an Oligocene sand sea on the Colorado Plateau

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 13-33

  Cather, Steven M ^a   Connell, Sean D ^a   Chamberlin, Richard M ^a   McIntosh, William C ^a   Jones, Glen E ^a   Potochnik, Andre R ^b   Lucas, Spencer G ^c   Johnson, Peggy S ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b New Mexico Museum of Natural History ^*  (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorado Plateau; Eolian; Epeirogeny; Erg; Exhumation; Oligocene; Paleoclimate

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; EROSION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

EOLIAN DEPOSITION; EXHUMATION; ROCK UPLIFT;

LANDFORMS;

DEPOSITION; DUNE; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; ERG; EXHUMATION; MESOZOIC; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOZOIC; TOPOGRAPHY; VOLCANIC ROCK;

ALBUQUERQUE BASIN; ARIZONA; COLORADO PLATEAU; LITTLE COLORADO RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; RIO GRANDE RIFT; UNITED STATES; WHITE RIVER [UNITED STATES];

EID: 38749090604     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26081.1     Document Type: Article

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