Calcite cement stratigraphy of a nonpedogenic calcrete in the Triassic New Haven Arkose (Newark Supergroup)

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 416, Issue , 2006, Pages 203-221

  Gierlowski Kordesch, Elizabeth H ^a   Rasbury, E Troy ^b   Cole, Jennifer M ^a,c   Sookdeo, Cherri ^a   Spataro, Glenn ^a   Nienstedt, Jessica ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Alveolar septal fabric; Cement stratigraphy; Groundwater calcrete; Taproots

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; CEMENTS; GROUNDWATER; LEAD ALLOYS; MANGANESE; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; STRATIGRAPHY; TEXTURES; URANIUM ALLOYS;

CALCITE-CEMENT; CALCRETES; CARBONATE LAYERS; CHANNEL SAND BODY; DIAGENETIC FLUIDS; PEDOGENIC CARBONATES; SHALLOW GROUNDWATER; TAPROOTS;

CALCITE;

CALCITE; CALCRETE; CARBONATE; CEMENT; FOSSIL RECORD; PETROGRAPHY; SANDSTONE; STRATIGRAPHY; TRIASSIC;

CONNECTICUT; HARTFORD BASIN; NEW HAVEN; NEW JERSEY; NEWARK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 73349099691     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2416(13)     Document Type: Article

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