Origin of Late Ordovician (mid-Mohawkian) temperate-water conditions on southeastern Laurentia: Glacial or tectonic?

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 466, Issue , 2010, Pages 163-175

  Ettensohn, Frank R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; DEFORMATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TECTONICS; TROPICS;

CARBONATE PLATFORMS; COASTAL UPWELLING; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FORELAND DEFORMATION; GLACIAL INFLUENCES; OCEANIC CIRCULATIONS; SYNERGETIC EFFECT; WARM-WATER CARBONATES;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CARBONATE PLATFORM; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRATON; GLACIATION; LAURENTIA; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SHALLOW WATER; TECTONIC SETTING; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; UNCONFORMITY; UPWELLING; WARM WATER;

EID: 78650929964     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.2466(11)     Document Type: Article

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