Appalachian sedimentary cycles during the Pennsylvanian: Changing influences of sea level, climate, and tectonics

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 441, Issue , 2008, Pages 235-248

  Greb, Stephen F ^a   Pashin, Jack C ^b   Pashin, Ronald L Martino ^c   Eble, Cortland F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b Alabama Geological Survey   (United States)

^c MARSHALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carboniferous; Coal; Cyclothem; Eustasy; Sequence

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; COAL; COAL DEPOSITS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LEAD ALLOYS; SEA LEVEL; TECTONICS; URANIUM ALLOYS;

CARBONIFEROUS; CYCLOTHEM; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCES; EUSTASY; LITHO-STRATIGRAPHIC; NORTHERN APPALACHIANS; SEDIMENTARY CYCLES; SEQUENCE;

DEPOSITION;

ACCUMULATION RATE; COAL; CYCLIC SEDIMENTATION; CYCLOTHEM; DEPOCENTER; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; EUSTACY; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; PENNSYLVANIAN; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

APPALACHIANS;

EID: 67650602685     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2441(16)     Document Type: Article

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