Extinction, invasion, and sequence stratigraphy: Patterns of faunal change in the Middle and Upper Ordovician of the eastern United States

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 306, Issue , 1996, Pages 131-142

  Patzkowsky, Mark E ^a   Holland, Steven M ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA LEVEL;

EASTERN NORTH AMERICA; EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS; NORTHERN APPALACHIANS; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS; STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCES; TRANSGRESSIVE SYSTEMS TRACTS; TROPICAL CARBONATES;

STRATIGRAPHY;

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CARBONATE; FOSSIL RECORD; LITHOFACIES; MASS EXTINCTION; NEW GENUS; ORDOVICIAN; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; TURBIDITY;

APPALACHIANS; CINCINNATI; OHIO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870809531     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2306-X.131     Document Type: Article

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