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Sequence stratigraphy and the development of a clinoformal carbonate ramp on an abandoned delta system: Mississippian Fort Payne--Salem Interval, Kentucky
… y. duration). It formed on and in front of the abandoned Early Mississippian Borden deltaic marine paleoshelf, which had up to 100 m of relief above the adjacent starved basin. Major facies consist of marine quartz sandstone and shale; peritidal carbonates; high-energy ramp margin, …
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Patterns and Pathways of Wetland Sedimentation and Landscape Change in Coastal Louisiana
… in land area of the Mississippi River birdfoot delta reflect these fluctuations, and that they are distinct from the timing of land losses elsewhere along the coast.</p> <p>The deposition of inorganic sediments elsewhere along the coast is driven primarily by marine processes. I quantified the …