Distinguishing the roles of autogenic versus allogenic processes in cyclic sedimentation, Cisco Group (Virgilian and Wolfcampian), north-central Texas

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 110, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1333-1353

  Yang, Wan ^a   Kominz, Michelle A ^b   Major, R P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c The University of Mississippi   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY;

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CYCLIC SEDIMENTATION; DIFFERENTIAL COMPACTION; LOCAL TOPOGRAPHY; LOCAL VARIATIONS; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; SILICICLASTIC ROCKS; SYSTEMATIC VARIATION;

TOPOGRAPHY;

CARBONIFEROUS; CYCLIC SEDIMENTATION; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879881436     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1998)110<1333:DTROAV>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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