Palynology of the Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) Ferron Sandstone Member, Utah, USA: Identification of marine flooding surfaces and Milankovitch cycles in subtropical, ever-wet, paralic to non-marine palaeoenvironments

Palynology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 122-136

  Akyuz, Isil ^a   Warny, Sophie ^a   Famubode, Oyebode ^b   Bhattacharya, Janok P ^c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway; Ferron Notom; palynology; sequence stratigraphy; Upper Cretaceous (Turonian)

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CENOMANIAN-TURONIAN BOUNDARY; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIACIAN; CYST; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DINOFLAGELLATE; FLOODING; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; OUTCROP; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSOL; PALYNOLOGY; PALYNOMORPH; SANDSTONE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SUBTROPICAL REGION;

FERRON; UNITED STATES; UTAH; WESTERN INTERIOR;

AMMONOIDEA; DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 84956820026     PISSN: 01916122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01916122.2015.1014525     Document Type: Article

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