Eolian-aquatic deposits and faunas of the middle cambrian potsdam group

Palaios

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 314-334

  Hagadorn, James W ^a   Collette, Joseph H ^b   Belt, Edward S ^c  

^a DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c AMHERST COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; CAMBRIAN; CEMENT; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DUNE; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; EPIFAUNA; FAUNISTICS; FLOODING; LAMINATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PALEOBIOLOGY; PALEOCURRENT; QUARTZ; REWORKING; RIPPLE; SORTING; TRACKWAY;

NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

ARENICOLITES; ARTHROPODA; DIPLICHNITES; PROTICHNITES;

EID: 79955821965     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2010.p10-061r     Document Type: Article

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