Stratigraphy and Paleolimnology of the Green River Formation, Western USA

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Smith, Michael Elliot (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Carroll, Alan R. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Σειρά: Syntheses in Limnogeology, 1
• Θέματα: Earth sciences.; Paleontology.; Sedimentology.; Geomorphology.; Earth Sciences.; Earth Sciences, general.

This volume presents a suite of detailed stratigraphic and sedimentologic investigations of the Eocene Green River Formation of Wyoming, Colorado and Utah, one of the world’s foremost terrestrial archives of lacustrine and alluvial deposition during the warmest portion of the early Cenozoic. Its twe...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction to the Green River Formation
• 2. Initiation of Eocene lacustrine sedimentation in the Greater Green River Basin: Luman Member of the Green River Formation
• 3. Lacustrine sedimentology, stratigraphy and stable isotope geochemistry of the Tipton Member of the Green River Formation
• 4. Stratigraphic Expression of Climate, Tectonism, and Geomorphic Forcing in an Underfilled Lake Basin: Wilkins Peak Member of the Green River Formation
• 5. Lake Type Transition from Balanced‐Fill to Overfilled: Laney Member, Green River Formation, Washakie Basin, Wyoming
• 6. Stratigraphy and Interbasinal Correlations between Fossil and the Green River Basin, Wyoming
• 7. Sedimentology of the world class organic-rich lacustrine system, Piceance basin, Colorado
• 8. Mineralogy of the Green River Formation in the Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado
• 9. Facies, stratigraphic architecture, and lake evolution of the oil shale bearing Green River Formation, eastern Uinta Basin, Utah
• 10. Phosphatic carbonate shale of the "Bird's Nest Saline Zone", upper Green River Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah
• 11. Evaporites of the Green River Formation, Bridger and Piceance Creek Basins: Deposition, Diagenesis, Paleobrine Chemistry, and Eocene Atmospheric CO2  12. Trace fossils of the Eocene Green River lake basins, Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado.