Flat-pebble conglomerate: Its multiple origins and relationship to metre-scale depositional cycles

Sedimentology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 973-996

  Myrow, Paul M ^a   Tice, Lauren ^a   Archuleta, Bonny ^b   Clark, Bryn ^c   Taylor, John F ^d   Ripperdan, Robert L ^e  

^a Department of Psychology   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e Saint Louis University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cambrian; Depositional cycles; Flat pebble conglomerate; Montana; Snowy Range Formation; Wyoming

Indexed keywords

CONGLOMERATE; CYCLIC SEDIMENTATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; PALEOZOIC; PEBBLE; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

MONTANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD; WYOMING;

EID: 6944253390     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2004.00657.x     Document Type: Article

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