Bryozoan nodules built around andesite clasts from the upper Pliocene of Baja California: Paleoecological implications and closure of the Panama Isthmus

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 318, Issue , 1997, Pages 111-117

  Cuffey, Roger J ^a   Johnson, Markes E ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAJA CALIFORNIA; COASTAL CURRENTS; EAST PACIFIC; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; MARINE WATERS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PLIOCENE DEPOSITS; TIDAL CURRENTS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ANDESITE; BIOGENIC DEPOSIT; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BRYOZOAN; CLAST; CLOSURE; COASTAL CURRENT; FAN DELTA; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PLIOCENE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR; DELMARVA PENINSULA; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; LORETO BAY; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC OCEAN; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 84870824020     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2318-3.111     Document Type: Article

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