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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Western Interior Seaway (WIS)"”.
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Sedimentary and ecosystem response to Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian - Turonian) paleoenvironmental events along the eastern margin of the Western Interior Seaway, Canada.
During the Cretaceous Period, the Western Interior Seaway (WIS) was influenced by long-term and short-term environmental changes. Vertebrate bonebeds are particularly abundant within the Cenomanian-aged strata of the Western Interior Sedimentary Basin’s eastern margin. The major control for their …
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Understanding topographic evolution of continents with landscape evolution simulations: the case of North America
… topographic fluctuations, from the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway (WIS) to the present high elevations within the middle-western continent. The WIS produced widespread marine sediments in the continental interior, far (>500 km) from tectonically active regions. This region also largely …
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Cretaceous Amber: A New Source of Bird Remains and of Palaeoecological Information in Dinosaur Bonebeds
… investigates amber deposits in Myanmar and Western Canada, through chemical analyses of amber and study of the inclusions. As part of this work, I described a bird foot and a large series of feather inclusions from the amber of Myanmar. In the bird specimen, a series of osteological features …
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Controls on the accumulation of organic matter in the Eagle Ford Group, Central Texas, USA.
The Upper Cretaceous Eagle Ford Formation is an organic rich marine mudrock which outcrops across central Texas. This study documents the chemostratigraphic character of the Pepper and Eagle Ford Formations in central Texas using major and trace elements, organic matter abundance, and the isotopic …