Diverse products of near-surface sediment mobilization in an ancient eolianite: Outcrop features of the early Jurassic Navajo Sandstone

Basin Research

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 578-590

  Bryant, Gerald ^a   Miall, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DISPLACEMENT; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; FLUIDIZATION; JURASSIC; LIQUEFACTION; OUTCROP; PARTITIONING; RECONSTRUCTION; REMOBILIZATION; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTATION; TECTONIC SETTING; TEXTURE; TURBULENT FLOW;

COLORADO PLATEAU; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955169819     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2010.00483.x     Document Type: Article

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