Upper ordovician-lower silurian depositional sequences determined from middle shelf sections, barn hills and lakeside mountains, eastern Great Basin

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 306, Issue , 1996, Pages 161-176

  Harris, Mark T ^a   Sheehan, Peter M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; FARM BUILDINGS; TIDAL POWER;

CROSS LAMINATED; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCES; FAUNAL COMMUNITIES; GREAT BASIN; METER SCALE; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; STACKING PATTERNS; STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK;

LAMINATING;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; DOLOMITE; LAMINATION; ORDOVICIAN; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHORE (NONMARINE); SILURIAN;

GREAT BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870795328     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2306-X.161     Document Type: Article

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