The effect of drainage reorganization on paleoaltimetry studies: An example from the Paleogene Laramide foreland

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 275, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 258-268

  Davis, Steven J ^a   Wiegand, Bettina A ^a   Carroll, Alan R ^b   Chamberlain, C Page ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

drainage patterns; isotope ratios; lacustrine sediments; limnogeology; North American Cordillera; paleoaltimetry

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE PATTERNS; ISOTOPE RATIOS; LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTS; LIMNOGEOLOGY; NORTH AMERICAN CORDILLERA; PALEOALTIMETRY;

ALKALINE EARTH METALS; EARTH SCIENCES; ISOTOPES; LAKES; OXYGEN; PIPE FLOW; RIVERS; SEDIMENTATION; STRONTIUM; TECTONICS; WATER; WATERSHEDS;

CATCHMENTS;

ALTIMETRY; BASIN EVOLUTION; CRETACEOUS; DRAINAGE BASIN; EOCENE; FORELAND BASIN; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LARAMIDE OROGENY; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOGENE; STABLE ISOTOPE;

GREEN BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH AMERICAN CORDILLERA; UINTA BASIN; UNITED STATES; UTAH; WYOMING;

SWIETENIA;

EID: 55649125349     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.08.009     Document Type: Article

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