Hot fan or cold outwash? hypothesized proglacial deposition in the upper paleozoic cutler formation, western tropical pangea

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 79, Issue 7-8, 2009, Pages 495-522

  Soreghan, Gerilyn S ^a   Soreghan, Michael J ^a   Sweet, Dustin E ^a   Moore, Katherine D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b Phillips Research Center 224GB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; DEPOSITS; GRANULATION; LANDFORMS; MASS TRANSFER; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTS; SILT; TROPICS; WEATHERING;

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CLIMATE INDICATORS; COLD TEMPERATURES; GLACIAL INFLUENCES; LACUSTRINE SYSTEMS; PRECAMBRIAN BASEMENT; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UPPER PALEOZOIC STRATA;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CLAST; DEPOSITION; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; OROGENY; PALEOZOIC; PANGAEA; PARALIC ENVIRONMENT; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; UPLIFT;

NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

EID: 69149098673     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2009.055     Document Type: Article

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