Limits on extreme eolian systems: Sahara of Mauritania and Jurassic Navajo Sandstone examples

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 370, Issue , 2003, Pages 43-52

  Kocurek, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Accumulation; Eolian; Jurassic; Preservation; Sahara; Sand seas

Indexed keywords

SANDSTONE; SEA LEVEL; TECTONICS; WOOD PRESERVATION;

ACCUMULATION; EOLIAN; FAVORABLE CONDITIONS; INDEPENDENT CONTROL; JURASSIC; NAVAJO SANDSTONES; PRESERVATION POTENTIAL; SAHARA;

SEDIMENTS;

EOLIAN DEPOSIT; EUSTACY; FLOODED SOIL; JURASSIC; SANDSTONE; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

MAURITANIA; SAHARA; WESTERN INTERIOR;

EID: 56049107973     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2370-1.43     Document Type: Article

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