A 56million year rhythm in North American sedimentation during the Phanerozoic

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 303, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 174-180

  Meyers, Stephen R ^a   Peters, Shanan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Biologic diversity; Cyclostratigraphy; Macrostratigraphy; Sedimentation; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

AUTO REGRESSIVE PROCESS; BIOLOGIC DIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COVERAGE AREA; CYCLIC CHANGES; CYCLIC PROCESS; CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; DATA SERIES; DOMINANT MODE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOSSIL RECORDS; MACROSTRATIGRAPHY; MANTLE CONVECTION; MARINE ANIMALS; NORTH AMERICAN; OSCILLATORY DYNAMICS; PERIODIC SIGNAL; PRINCIPAL TEMPORAL MODES; QUASI-PERIODIC; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STRATIGRAPHIC RECORDS; WILSON CYCLE;

BIOLOGY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STRATIGRAPHY;

SEDIMENTATION;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; PERIODICITY; PHANEROZOIC; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79952101446     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.12.044     Document Type: Article

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