Mesozoic lakes of the Colorado Plateau

GSA Field Guides

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages 329-356

  Demko, Timothy M ^a   Nicoll, Kathleen ^b   Beer, Joseph J ^a   Hasiotis, Stephen T ^c   Park, Lisa E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinle; Colorado Plateau; Lakes; Morrison; Paleoclimate; Paleoecology; Paleoenvironments

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

CHINLE; COLORADO PLATEAU; MORRISON; PALEOCLIMATES; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENTS;

LAKES;

EID: 85065265293     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2005.fld006(16)     Document Type: Article

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