Michigan hockey, meteoric precipitation, and rhymicity of accumulation on peritidal carbonate platforms

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 110, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1075-1093

  Wilkinson, Bruce H ^a,b   Diedrich, Nathaniel W ^a,b   Drummond, Carl N ^a,b   Rothman, Edward D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATION; SPORTS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; STRATIGRAPHY;

CARBONATE DEPOSITION; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; PRECIPITATION EPISODES; PROBABILITY OF SUCCESS; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; STRATIGRAPHIC INTERVALS; THICKNESS FREQUENCIES; UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

CARBONATE PLATFORM; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874954147     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1998)110<1075:MHMPAR>2.3.CO     Document Type: Article

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