Evidence for eustasy at the kinderhookian-Osagean (mississippian) boundary in the United States: Response to late Tournaisian glaciation?

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 441, Issue , 2008, Pages 261-274

  Rammer, Thomas W ^a   Matchen, David L ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Business Administration and Division of Business and Economics   (United States)

Author keywords

Appalachian basin; Black hand sandstone; Burgoon sandstone; Eustasy; Glaciation; Incised valley; Kinderhookian; Osagean; Sea level maps; Tournaisian

Indexed keywords

MAPPING; SANDSTONE; SEA LEVEL; STRATIGRAPHY;

APPALACHIAN BASIN; EUSTASY; GLACIATION; INCISED VALLEY; KINDERHOOKIAN; OSAGEAN; TOURNAISIAN;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

EUSTACY; GLACIATION; INCISED VALLEY; REGRESSION; SANDSTONE; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TOURNAISIAN; UNCONFORMITY;

APPALACHIAN BASIN;

PORTULACACEAE;

EID: 74449087936     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2441(18)     Document Type: Article

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