Marine influence in the Upper Ordovician Juniata Formation (Potters Mills, Pennsylvania): Implications for the history of life on land

Palaios

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 527-539

  Davies, Neil S ^a   Rygel, Michael C ^b   Gibling, Martin R ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT POTSDAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURROW; DATA SET; FOSSIL RECORD; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; MUDSTONE; OUTCROP; PALEOZOIC; PEDOGENESIS; SANDSTONE;

APPALACHIANS; PENNSYLVANIA; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77955226427     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2010.p10-025r     Document Type: Article

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