Recognition and significance of sharp-based mouth-bar deposits in the Eocene Green River Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah

Sedimentology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1069-1087

  Schomacker, Edwin Robert ^a   Kjemperud, Audun Vestheim ^a   Nystuen, Johan Petter ^a   Jahren, Jens Sigurd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Green River Formation; Regressive transgressive sequences; Sharp based river mouth bars; Uinta Basin

Indexed keywords

CLIFF; DELTAIC DEPOSIT; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; EOCENE; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LIMESTONE; MUDSTONE; SANDSTONE; TRANSGRESSION;

UINTA BASIN; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 77953972250     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2009.01136.x     Document Type: Article

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