Using the voids to fill the gaps: Caves, time, and stratigraphy

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 404, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 233-250

  Plotnick, Roy E ^a   Kenig, Fabien ^a   Scott, Andrew C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVE SYSTEM; DEPOSITION; KARSTIFICATION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOKARST; PALEONTOLOGY; PENNSYLVANIAN; SEDIMENT; SPELEOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

ILLINOIS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; CONIFEROPHYTA; SCORPIONES;

EID: 84949124401     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP404.5     Document Type: Article

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