Relative sea-level changes during Middle Ordovician through Mississippian deposition in the Iowa area, North American craton

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 306, Issue , 1996, Pages 307-330

  Witzke, Brian J ^a   Bunker, Bill J ^a  

^a Geological Survey Bureau   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA LEVEL; STRATIGRAPHY;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; LOCAL VARIATIONS; NORTH AMERICAN CRATONS; REGIONAL PATTERN; REGRESSIVE SYSTEMS TRACTS; RELATIVE SEA-LEVEL CHANGES; SEDIMENTATION RATES; TRANSGRESSIVE SYSTEMS TRACTS;

DEPOSITION;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRATON; CYCLICITY; FACIES; MISSISSIPPIAN; ORDOVICIAN; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SUBSIDENCE;

EID: 84870768848     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2306-X.307     Document Type: Article

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