Origin of a classic cratonic sheet sandstone: Stratigraphy across the Sauk II-Sauk III boundary in the Upper Mississippi Valley

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 188-210

  Runkel, Anthony C ^a   McKay, Robert M ^b   Palmer, Allison R ^c  

^a Minnesota Geological Survey   (United States)

^b Geological Survey Bureau   (United States)

^c Institute for Cambrian Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCH BRIDGES; DEPOSITION; EROSION; LANDFORMS; SAND; SEA LEVEL; SHALE; STRATIGRAPHY; WEATHERING;

DEPOSITIONAL CONDITION; DEPOSITIONAL MODELS; MINERAL COMPOSITION; PRESERVATION POTENTIAL; SEQUENCE-BOUNDING UNCONFORMITIES; STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS; WEATHERING PROFILES;

SANDSTONE;

CAMBRIAN; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CRETACEOUS; HIGHSTAND; LITHOFACIES; OUTCROP; PALEOZOIC; PROTEROZOIC; SANDSTONE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TRILOBITE; WISCONSINAN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; MISSISSIPPI VALLEY; UNITED STATES; WESTERN INTERIOR;

EID: 84879886665     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1998)110<0188:OOACCS>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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