Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of the lower cretaceous fortress mountain and torok formations exposed along the Siksikpuk River, north-central Alaska

US Geological Survey Professional Paper

Volumn , Issue 1739 D, 2007, Pages

  Houseknecht, David W ^a   Schenk, Christopher J ^a   Wartes, Marwan A ^a  

^a Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys   (United States)

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