Tephrostratigraphy and source of the tuffs of the White River sequence

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 325, Issue , 1998, Pages 1-14

  Larson, Edwin E ^a   Evanoff, Emmett ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FELDSPAR; GEOCHEMISTRY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MICA; RADIOMETRY;

EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; GRAIN SIZE ANALYSIS; LOCALIZED SOURCE; MINERALOGY , GEOCHEMISTRIES; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; TEPHROSTRATIGRAPHY; TRANSPORT DIRECTION; TUFFACEOUS MATERIALS;

RIVERS;

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DACITE; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MUDSTONE; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; TUFF; VOLCANOLOGY;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870848620     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2325-6.1     Document Type: Article

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