Overview
- One stop reference for engaging with one of the world’s most important lake deposits
- Latest stratigraphic and paleontologic insights on the Green River Formation
- A comprehensive window into the Eocene Great Lakes of the Rocky Mountains
Part of the book series: Syntheses in Limnogeology (SYNLIMNO, volume 1)
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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 twelve chapters encompass the rich and varied record of lacustrine stratigraphy, sedimentology, geochronology, geochemistry and paleontology. Chapters 2-9 provide detailed member-scale synthesis of Green River Formation strata within the Greater Green River, Fossil, Piceance Creek and Uinta Basins, while its final two chapters address its enigmatic evaporite deposits and ichnofossils at broad, interbasinal scale.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Stratigraphy and Paleolimnology of the Green River Formation, Western USA
Editors: Michael Elliot Smith, Alan R. Carroll
Series Title: Syntheses in Limnogeology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9906-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9905-8Published: 14 July 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0603-0Published: 21 February 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9906-5Published: 02 July 2015
Series ISSN: 2211-2731
Series E-ISSN: 2211-274X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 355
Number of Illustrations: 58 b/w illustrations, 93 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sedimentology, Geomorphology, Paleontology, Earth Sciences, general