Reworking diversity: Effects of storm deposition on evenness and sampled richness, Ordovician of the basin and range, Utah and Nevada, USA

Palaios

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 87-96

  Finnegan, Seth ^a   Droser, Mary L ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTURBATION; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; LITHIFICATION; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOECOLOGY; REWORKING; SEDIMENTATION; STORM DEPOSIT;

NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 39549120878     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2005.p05-124r     Document Type: Article

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