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Record Nr.

UNINA9910841361203321

Autore

Christie-Blick Nicholas

Titolo

Late Proterozoic and Cambrian Tectonics, Sedimentation, and Record of Metazoan Radiation in the Western United States

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : American Geophysical Union, 1989

ISBN

1-118-66741-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (v, 113 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Field trip guidebook (International Geological Congress (28th : 1989 : Washington, D.C.)) ; ; T331

Disciplina

557.8

Soggetti

Geology West (U.S.)

West - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Overview of excursion / Nicholas Christie-Blick, Jeffrey F Mount, Marjorie Levy, Philip W Signor, Paul Karl Link -- Stratigraphic and tectonic framework of Upper Proterozoic and Cambrian rocks in the Western United States / Nicholas Christie-Blick, Marjorie Levy -- Concepts of sequence stratigraphy, with examples from strata of late Proterozoic and Cambrian age in the Western United States / Nicholas Christie-Blick, Marjorie Levy -- Paleoenvironmental context of the Metazoan radiation event and its impact on the placement of the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary: examples from the Southwestern Great Basin, U.S.A. / Jeffrey F Mount, Philip W Signor -- Paleontology of the Lower Cambrian Waucoban series in eastern California and western Nevada / Philip W Signor, Jeffrey F Mount -- Description of stops / Nicholas Christie-Blick, Jeffrey F Mount, Marjorie Levy, Philip W Signor, Paul Karl Link -- References.