Keweenawan Supergroup clastic rocks in the Midcontinent Rift of Iowa

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 312, Issue , 1997, Pages 211-230

  Anderson, Raymond R ^a  

^a Geological Survey Bureau   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GASOLINE; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

GEOLOGIC HISTORY; GRAVITY AND MAGNETIC ANOMALIES; PETROGRAPHIC EXAMINATIONS; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES; STRUCTURAL CONFIGURATIONS; SYMMETRICAL STRUCTURE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL GRAVITY;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

CLASTIC ROCK; MESOZOIC; OROGENY; PALEOZOIC; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; UPLIFT; VOLCANISM;

IOWA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870777840     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2312-4.211     Document Type: Article

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