Reassessment of the basal sauk supersequence boundary across the laurentian craton-margin hinge zone, Southeastern California

Journal of Geology

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 661-685

  Hogan, Eric G ^a   Fedo, Christopher M ^a   Cooper, John D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CARBON ISOTOPE; CONGLOMERATE; CRATON; DOLOSTONE; EROSION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAURENTIA; QUARTZITE; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; UNCONFORMITY;

CALIFORNIA; DEATH VALLEY; MOJAVE DESERT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80054105128     PISSN: 00221376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/661990     Document Type: Article

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