Stratigraphy, depositional environments, and sedimentary tectonics of the western margin, Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway / edited by J. Dale Nations, Jeffrey G. Eaton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nations, Dale.

Eaton, Jeffrey G., 1948-

Geological Society of America. Annual Meeting (1987 : Phoenix, Ariz.)

Geological Society of America.

Series:

Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 260.

Special paper / Geological Society of America ; 260

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geology, Stratigraphic--Cretaceous.

Geology, Stratigraphic.

Geology--West (U.S.).

Geology.

Plate tectonics--West (U.S.).

Plate tectonics.

Sedimentation and deposition--West (U.S.).

Sedimentation and deposition.

Cretaceous Geologic Period.

West United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 216 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 1991.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Tectonic setting along the margin of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway, southwestern Utah and northern Arizona / Jeffrey G. Eaton, J. Dale Nations

Tectonic influence on sedimentation in the southern Sevier foreland, Iron Springs Formation (Upper Cretaceous), southwestern Utah / Robert P. Fillmore

Braided stream deposition and provenance of the Upper Cretaceous-Paleocene Canaan Peak Formation, Sevier foreland basin, southwestern Utah / James G. Schmitt, David A. Jones, Patrick M. Goldstrand

Biostratigraphic framework for the Upper Cretaceous rocks of the Kaiparowits Plateau, southern Utah / Jeffrey G. Eaton

Depositional environments, palynology, and age of the Dakota Formation, south-central Utah / Barbara A. am Ende

Lithostratigraphic and biostratigraphic framework for the Mancos Shale (Late Cenomanian to Middle Turonian) at Black Mesa, northeastern Arizona / James Ian Kirkland.

(cont.) Molluscan paleoecology and sedimentation patterns of the Cenomanian-Turonian extinction interval in the southern Colorado Plateau region / William P. Elder

Paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic interpretations of the Mancos Shale (Upper Cretaceous), Black Mesa Basin, Arizona / R. Mark Leckie [and others]

Foraminiferal biostratigraphy and paleoecology of the Mancos Shale (Upper Cretaceous), southwestern Black Mesa, Arizona / James Olesen

Facies and depositional environments of the coal-bearing upper carbonaceous member of the Wepo Formation (Upper Cretaceous), northeastern Black Mesa, Arizona / David A. Carr

Heterogeneity of Upper Cretaceous Gallup sandstone regressive facies, Gallup Sag, New Mexico / Romeo M. Flores, John C. Hohman, Frank G. Ethridge.

Notes:

"A result of a symposium ... held at the 1987 Geological Society of America national meeting in Phoenix"--Page 1.

"Appendix to Lithostratigraphic framework for the Mancos Shale ..., by J.I. Kirkland, p. 85-112" (1 microfiche in pocket).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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OCLC:

858794606

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