Middle-Upper Devonian relative sea-level histories of central and western North American interior basins

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 306, Issue , 1996, Pages 259-275

  Day, Jed ^a   Uyeno, Tom ^b   Norris, Willy ^b   Witzke, Brian J ^c   Bunker, Bill J ^c  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Institute of Sedimentary & Petroleum Geology   (Canada)

^c Geological Survey Bureau   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRATIGRAPHY;

CRATONIC BASIN; DEVONIANS; EUSTATIC SEA LEVEL; NORTH AMERICAN; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; STUDY AREAS;

SEA LEVEL;

CATION; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; EUSTACY; FRASNIAN-FAMENNIAN BOUNDARY; GIVETIAN; SEA LEVEL; STRATIGRAPHY; TRANSGRESSION;

IOWA; IOWA BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870823065     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2306-X.259     Document Type: Article

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