Biological mediation of stochastic peritidal carbonate accumulation

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 847-850

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; LITHOLOGY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RIVERS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; STRATIGRAPHY; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

CARBONATE PRECIPITATION; CARBONATE SEDIMENTS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; LOWER PROBABILITIES; PARTICULATE MATERIALS; STRATIGRAPHIC INTERVALS; THICKNESS FREQUENCIES; TRANSITION PROBABILITIES;

CARBONATION;

CARBONATE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DEPOSITION; LITHOLOGY; ORDOVICIAN; PROBABILITY; STOCHASTICITY;

ARDMORE; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84875001299     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0847:BMOSPC>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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