Reconstructing the avalonia palaeocontinent in the Cambrian: A 519 Ma caliche in South Wales and transcontinental middle terreneuvian sandstones

Geological Magazine

Volumn 150, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1022-1046

  Landing, Ed ^a   Westrop, Stephen R ^b   Bowring, Samuel A ^c  

^a NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Avalonia; caliche; Early Cambrian; sequence stratigraphy; South Wales

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; SANDSTONE; STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANOES;

AVALONIA; CALICHE; EARLY CAMBRIANS; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SOUTH WALES;

DECELERATION;

AVALONIA; CALICHE; CAMBRIAN; CARBONATE PLATFORM; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; EDIACARAN; GONDWANA; LITHOLOGY; MUDSTONE; PALEOZOIC; RECONSTRUCTION; SANDSTONE; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TRILOBITE;

CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

TRILOBITOMORPHA;

EID: 84885910331     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756813000228     Document Type: Article

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