Depositional environments and sequence stratigraphy of Upper Ordovician epicontinental deep water deposits, eastern Iowa and southern Minnesota

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 306, Issue , 1996, Pages 143-159

  Raatz, William D ^a,c   Ludvigson, Greg A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Geological Survey Bureau   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; DEPOSITS; ORGANIC CARBON; SHALE;

BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; DENSITY STRATIFIED; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DEPTH DEPENDENTS; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; GYRE CIRCULATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

STRATIGRAPHY;

BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; CARBONATE ROCK; DEEP WATER; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FACIES; GYRE; HIGHSTAND; ORDOVICIAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PETROLOGY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TRILOBITE;

IOWA; MINNESOTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870777756     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2306-X.143     Document Type: Article

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