A revision of the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous stratigraphic nomenclature for the Chihuahua trough, north-central Mexico: Implications for lithocorrelations

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 340, Issue , 1999, Pages 69-92

  Monreal, Rogelio ^a   Longoria, José F ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE SONORA   (Mexico)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIME; STRATIGRAPHY; TERMINOLOGY;

CENTRAL MEXICO; JURASSIC; LITHOFACIES; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC UNITS; LOWER CRETACEOUS; NEW MEXICO; SOUTHEASTERN ARIZONA;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

DEPOCENTER; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; LIMESTONE; LITHOFACIES; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; NOMENCLATURE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SUCCESSION;

ARIZONA; CHIHUAHUA [MEXICO]; LAS VIGAS; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NEW MEXICO; UNITED STATES; VERACRUZ;

EID: 84871011029     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2340-X.69     Document Type: Article

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