Lithostratigraphic, conodont, and other faunal links between lower Paleozoic strata in northern and central Alaska and northeastern Russia

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 360, Issue , 2002, Pages 291-312

  Dumoulin, Julie A ^a   Harris, Anita G ^a   Gagiev, Mussa ^b   Bradley, Dwight C ^a   Repetski, John E ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PLATFORMS; CARBONATE STRATA; EARLY PALEOZOIC; LITHO-STRATIGRAPHIC; MIDDLE DEVONIAN; NORTHERN ALASKA; SILICICLASTIC ROCKS; SILURIAN-DEVONIAN;

BUILDINGS;

ARCHEAN; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CAMBRIAN; CONODONT; CRATON; DEVONIAN; EVAPORITE; LAURENTIA; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOZOIC; PROTEROZOIC;

ALASKA; ARCTIC; CHUKCHI; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84871016786     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2360-4.291     Document Type: Article

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