Sedimentology and provenance of Mesozoic nonmarine strata in western Mongolia: A record of intracontinental deformation

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 194, Issue , 2001, Pages 361-388

  Sjostrom, Derek J ^a,e   Hendrix, Marc S ^a   Badamgarav, Demchig ^b   Graham, Stephan A ^c   Nelson, Bruce K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Mongolia)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; BINARY ALLOYS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DEFORMATION; DEPOSITION; GRANITE; ISOTOPES; NEODYMIUM ALLOYS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; REFLECTION; RIVERS; SAMARIUM ALLOYS; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SETTLING TANKS; TECTONICS;

COMPRESSIONAL TECTONICS; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; SANDSTONE COMPOSITION; SANDSTONE SAMPLES; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; SEDIMENTARY STRATA; VITRINITE REFLECTANCE;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; GRANITE; HEAT FLOW; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; MESOZOIC; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; TECTONIC SETTING;

EID: 84871228401     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-1194-0.361     Document Type: Article

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