Lithostratigraphic revision and correlation of the lower part of the White River Group: South Dakota to Nebraska

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 325, Issue , 1998, Pages 15-37

  Terry Jr , Dennis O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; RIVERS; SANDSTONE; WEATHERING;

CLAYSTONES; LITHO-STRATIGRAPHIC; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC UNITS; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; NEBRASKA; SMECTITES; SOUTH DAKOTAS; WHITE LAYER;

OILSEEDS;

CLAYSTONE; CORRELATION; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MUDSTONE; PALEOSOL; PEDOGENESIS; SANDSTONE;

MCPHERSON COUNTY [NEBRASKA]; NEBRASKA; SOUTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870813348     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2325-6.15     Document Type: Article

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