The onset of mid-Carboniferous glacio-eustasy: Sedimentologic and diagenetic constraints, Arrow Canyon, Nevada

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 276, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 217-243

  Bishop, James W ^a   Montañez, Isabel P ^a   Gulbranson, Erik L ^a   Brenckle, Paul L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbonate; Cyclothem; Greenhouse; Icehouse; Late Paleozoic Ice Age; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; DEVONIAN; DIAGENESIS; GLACIOEUSTACY; PERMIAN; PLEISTOCENE; SERPUKHOVIAN; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; STRATIGRAPHY; VISEAN;

ARROW CANYON RANGE; NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES;

EID: 64949107675     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.02.019     Document Type: Article

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