Lithostratigraphic and mineralogic correlations of near K/T boundary clastic sediments in northeastern Mexico: Implications for origin and nature of deposition

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 307, Issue , 1996, Pages 211-226

  Adatte, Thierry ^a   Stinnesbeck, Wolfgang ^b   Keller, Gerta ^c  

^a CH 2000   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE NUEVO LEÓN   (Mexico)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY DEPOSITS; DEPOSITS; EROSION; FERTILIZERS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TSUNAMIS; ZEOLITES;

CLASTIC SEDIMENTS; EROSION AND SEDIMENT TRANSPORTS; HEMIPELAGIC SEDIMENTATION; LITHO-STRATIGRAPHIC; PLANKTIC FORAMINIFERA; SEDIMENTARY PROCESS; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; TURBIDITY CURRENT;

SEDIMENTATION;

BIOTURBATION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLASTIC SEDIMENT; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MINERALOGY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; ZEOLITE;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84870832561     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2307-8.211     Document Type: Article

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