Tempestites in a teapot? Condensation-generated shell beds in the Upper Ordovician, Cincinnati Arch, USA

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 367-368, Issue , 2012, Pages 44-62

  Dattilo, Benjamin F ^a   Brett, Carlton E ^b   Schramm, Thomas J ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Event deposits; Sediment starvation; Shell beds; Taconic orogeny; Tempestite; Upper ordovician katian

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBONATE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONDENSATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FACIES; GEOACCUMULATION; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MUDSTONE; ORDOVICIAN; OROGENY; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PETROGRAPHY; SHALLOW WATER; TAPHONOMY; VOLUME; WEATHER;

CINCINNATI; OHIO; UNITED STATES;

CINCINNATIA; WALTHERIA;

EID: 84870468186     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.04.012     Document Type: Article

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