Provenance of a Permian erg on the western margin of Pangea: Depositional system of the Kungurian (late Leonardian) Castle Valley and White Rim sandstones and subjacent Cutler Group, Paradox Basin, Utah, USA

Geosphere

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1475-1506

  Lawton, Timothy F ^a   Buller, Cody D ^b   Parr, Todd R ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b RKI Exploration and Production   (United States)

^c APACHE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; DEPOSITION; DEPOSITS; FELDSPAR; GALLIUM; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LANDFORMS; LEAD; MICA; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SILICATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY; ZIRCON;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION MODEL; DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEM; FLUVIAL DEPOSITS; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; POTASSIUM FELDSPAR; SANDSTONE COMPOSITION; TRANSPORT DIRECTION;

SANDSTONE;

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; ERG; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PANGAEA; PERMIAN; PETROGRAPHY; PROVENANCE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

PARADOX BASIN; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 84947764374     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES01174.1     Document Type: Article

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