Sedimentary Environments: Storms and storm deposits

Encyclopedia of Geology

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 580-587

  Myrow, P ^a  

^a University of Colorado College of Nursing   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

'CURRENT; COASTAL PLAIN; DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEM; FACIES MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHIC STUDY; ROCK RECORDS; SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENT; SPECTRA'S; STORM DEPOSITS; TEMPESTITES;

STORMS;

EID: 85069287170     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B0-12-369396-9/00488-3     Document Type: Chapter

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