Stratigraphic and tectonic implications of a newly discovered glacial diamictite-cap carbonate couplet in southwestern Mongolia

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 123-126

  Macdonald, Francis A ^a   Jones, David S ^a   Schrag, Daniel P ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIANS; CAP CARBONATES; EDIACARAN; LITHO-STRATIGRAPHIC; MONGOLIA; NEOPROTEROZOIC; TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

STRATIGRAPHY;

CAMBRIAN; CAP ROCK; CARBONATE ROCK; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; DIAMICTITE; EDIACARAN; FOREARC BASIN; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PASSIVE MARGIN; PROTEROZOIC; RIFTING; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY;

ASIA; DARIV RANGE; DZAVHAN; EURASIA; FAR EAST; MONGOLIA;

EID: 67349129113     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G24797A.1     Document Type: Article

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