Pennsylvanian cyclothems in Midcontinent North America as far-field effects of waxing and waning of Gondwana ice sheets

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 441, Issue , 2008, Pages 275-289

  Heckel, Philip H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyclothems; Far field effects; Gondwana glaciation; Pennsylvanian

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEPOSITS; LIME; LIMESTONE; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; RADIOMETRY; SHALE; WAKES;

APPALACHIAN BASIN; CYCLOTHEMS; FAR-FIELD EFFECT; GLACIAL DEPOSITS; GONDWANA GLACIATION; MAXIMUM FLOODING SURFACES; PENNSYLVANIANS; RADIOMETRIC DATES;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CYCLOTHEM; GLACIATION; GONDWANA; ICE SHEET; PALEOSOL; PENNSYLVANIAN; REGRESSION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TRANSGRESSION;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 75249101463     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2441(19)     Document Type: Article

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