K/T boundary coarse-grained siliciclastic deposits in northeastern Mexico and northeastern Brazil: Evidence for mega-tsunami or sea-level changes?

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 307, Issue , 1996, Pages 197-209

  Stinnesbeck, Wolfgang ^a   Keller, Gerta ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE NUEVO LEÓN   (Mexico)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; LIME; LIMESTONE; LITHOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TSUNAMIS;

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERS; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EUSTATIC SEA LEVEL; HEMIPELAGIC SEDIMENTATION; NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL; SEDIMENTARY PROCESS; SILICICLASTIC SEDIMENTS;

SEA LEVEL;

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; TSUNAMI; VOLCANISM;

BRAZIL; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84870782750     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2307-8.197     Document Type: Article

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