Late Neogene marine incursions and the ancestral Gulf of California

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 439, Issue , 2008, Pages 355-373

  McDougall, Kristin ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Colorado river.; Microfossils; Neogene; Salton trough

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CATCHMENTS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERS; COLORADO RIVER; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; MARINE CONDITIONS; MARINE INCURSION; MICROFOSSILS; NEO GENES; SALTON TROUGH;

RIVERS;

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; MARINE SEDIMENT; MICROFOSSIL; NEOGENE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA;

CALIFORNIA; COLORADO RIVER [NORTH AMERICA]; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SALTON TROUGH; UNITED STATES;

AMMONIA (FORAMINIFERAN); AMPHISTEGINA GIBBOSA; BOLIVINA; CASSIDULINA; CIBICIDES; DISCOASTER; DISCOASTER BROUWERI; ELPHIDIUM; FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINA NEPENTHES; GLOBIGERINOIDES; QUINQUELOCULINA; SPHENOLITHUS; SPHENOLITHUS ABIES; SURCULUS; UVIGERINA PEREGRINA; YUMA;

EID: 75349113806     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2439(16)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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