Hell Creek Formation and the early picking of the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the Williston Basin

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 361, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-7

  Hartman, Joseph H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; FOSSIL RECORDS; MESOZOIC; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; WILLISTON BASIN;

CENOZOIC; CORRELATION; CRETACEOUS; CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY; FOSSIL RECORD;

GREAT PLAINS; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

EID: 79551551793     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2361-2.1     Document Type: Article

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