Controls on the wandering path of the Cupido Reef trend in northeastern Mexico

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 340, Issue , 1999, Pages 135-143

  Wilson, James Lee ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIME; LIMESTONE; OCEAN STRUCTURES;

FAULT BLOCKS; GULF OF MEXICO; LARAMIDE; LATE JURASSIC; LOWER CRETACEOUS; ME-XICO; TIDAL FLAT;

REEFS;

CRETACEOUS; DEEP WATER; FACIES; FAULT; GRAINSTONE; LIMESTONE; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; REEF; SEDIMENTATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; COAHUILA; GULF OF MEXICO; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; MONTERREY; NUEVO LEON; SIERRA DE PARRAS; TAMAULIPAS;

EID: 84871023539     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2340-X.135     Document Type: Article

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