Tidal deposits of the Campanian Western Interior Seaway, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado, USA

Principles of Tidal Sedimentology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 437-471

  Steel, Ronald J ^a   Plink Bjorklund, Piret ^b   Aschoff, Jennifer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0123-6_17     Document Type: Chapter

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