The biodynamic significance of double stone layers in Mima mounds

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 490, Issue , 2012, Pages 71-84

  Burnham, Jennifer L Horwath ^a   Johnson, Donald L ^b   Johnson, Diana N ^c  

^a AUGUSTANA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c Geosciences Consultants   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALS;

LABORATORY ANALYSIS; LABORATORY DATUM; LARGE VOLUMES; POCKET GOPHER; PUGET SOUND; SHEDDING LIGHT; SOIL MOUNDS; WASHINGTON;

SOILS;

BIOTURBATION; BURROWING ORGANISM; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; PRAIRIE; RODENT;

MISSOURI; PUGET SOUND; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

ANIMALIA; GEOMYIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84876813762     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2012.2490(04)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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