The record of time in cratonic interior strata: Does exceptionally slow subsidence necessarily result in exceptionally poor stratigraphic completeness?

Special Paper - Geological Association of Canada

Volumn , Issue 48, 2008, Pages 341-362

  Runkel, Anthony C ^a   Miller, James F ^b   McKay, Robert M ^c   Palmer, Allison R ^d   Taylor, John F ^e  

^a Minnesota Geological Survey   (United States)

^b MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Geological Survey Bureau   (United States)

^d Institute for Cambrian Studies   (United States)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DEPOSITION; INLAND SEA; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; ORDOVICIAN; SUBSIDENCE;

EID: 59649120507     PISSN: 00721042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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