Paleocurrents and Depositional Environments of the Dakota Group (Cretaceous), San Miguel County, New Mexico

Paleocurrents and Depositional Environments of the Dakota Group (Cretaceous), San Miguel County, New Mexico

The Dakota Group surrounding Las Vegas, New Mexico, consists of three units: 1) a basal, predominately trough cross-stratified, conglomeratic sandstone, 2) middle intercalated, thin-bedded sandstone and carbonaceous shale, and 3) upper, predominately tabular-planar cross-stratified, sandstone contai...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bejnar, Craig Russel
Other Authors: Wilson, Richard F.
Language:en_US
Published: The University of Arizona. 1975
Subjects:
algae
bedding plane irregularities
biostratigraphy
clastic rocks
Cretaceous
cross-stratification
Dakota Formation
depositional environment
environment
environmental analysis
indicators
lithostratigraphy
marine
Mesozoic
microfossils
Mora County New Mexico
nannofossils
nearshore
New Mexico
northeast
paleocurrents
palynomorphs
planar bedding structures
Plantae
provenance
ripple marks
San Miguel County New Mexico
sandstone
sedimentary petrology
sedimentary rocks
sedimentary structures
sedimentation
shale
shallow
stratigraphy
streams
terrigenous
thallophytes
United States
Geology > New Mexico > San Manuel County
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/244084

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