Reconstructing an Eocene extensional basin: The White Sage Formation, eastern Great Basin

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 303, Issue , 1996, Pages 1-14

  Dubiel, R F ^a   Potter, C J ^a   Good, S C ^b   Snee, L W ^c  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; CARBONATION; CATCHMENTS; FAULTING; LAKES; MICA; MOLLUSCS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION; VOLCANIC ROCKS; WATER; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION; WETLANDS;

AQUATIC VEGETATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EMERGENT VEGETATION; INDUCED DEPOSITION; LACUSTRINE SYSTEMS; ORGANIC-RICH MUDSTONE; SEDIMENTARY FACIES; TERRESTRIAL GASTROPODS;

DEPOSITION;

ALLUVIAL FAN; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBONATE ROCK; EOCENE; FOSSIL RECORD; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; RHYOLITE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SHOALING WAVE; TOMOGRAPHY;

GREAT BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870824620     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2303-5.1     Document Type: Article

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