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2003
Journal of Sedimentary Research
Issue: 73:2
Author(s): Stephan F. Pekar & Nicholas Christie-Blick & Kenneth G. Miller & Michelle A. Kominz
Title: Quantitative Constraints on the Origin of Stratigraphic Architecture at Passive Continental Margins: Oligocene Sedimentation in New Jersey, U.S.A.
PALAIOS
Issue: 18:2
Author(s): David H. Goodwin & Bernd R. Schöne & David L. Dettman
Title: Resolution and Fidelity of Oxygen Isotopes as PALAIOSeotemperature Proxies in Bivalve Mollusk Shells: Models and Observations
2002
Journal of Sedimentary Research
Issue: 72:5
Author(s): Eugene C. Rankey
Title: Spatial Patterns of Sediment Accumulation on a Holocene Carbonate Tidal Flat, Northwest Andros Island, Bahamas
PALAIOS
Issue: 17:5
Author(s): Christophe Dupraz & André Strasser
Title: Nutritional Modes in Coral - Microbialite Reefs (Jurassic, Oxfordian, Switzerland): Evolution of Trophic Structure as a Response to Environmental Change
2001
Journal of Sedimentary Research
Issue: 71:4
Author(s): Stephen R. Meyers & Bradley S. Sageman & Linda A. Hinnov
Title: Integrated Quantitative Stratigraphy of the Cenomanian-Turonian Bridge Creek Limestone Member Using Evolutive Harmonic Analysis and Stratigraphic Modeling
PALAIOS
Issue: 16:5
Author(s): Thomas D. Olszewski & Mark E. Patzkowsky
Title: Measuring Recurrence of Marine Biotic Gradients: A Case Study from the Pennsylvanian-Permian Midcontinent
2000
Journal of Sedimentary Research
Issue: 70:3
Author(s): Jeff Peakall & Bill McCaffrey & Ben Kneller
Title: A Process Model for the Evolution, Morphology and Architecture of Sinuous Submarine Channels
PALAIOS
Issue: 15:4
Author(s): David A. Eberth & David S. Berman & Stuart S. Sumida & Hagen Hopf
Title: Lower Permian Terrestrial PALAIOSeoenvironments and Vertebrate PALAIOSeoecology of the Tambach Basin (Thuringia, Central Germany): The Upland Holy Grail
1999
Journal of Sedimentary Research
Issue: 69:6
Author(s): Erik P. Kvale & Hollis W. Johnson & Charles P. Sonnett & Allen W. Archer & Ann Zawistoski
Title: Calculating lunar retreat rates using tidal rhythmites
PALAIOS
Issue: 14:6
Author(s): Samuel J. Bentley & Charles A. Nittrouer
Title: Physical and biological influences on the formation of sedimentary fabric in an oxygen-restricted depositional environment: Eckernforde Bay, southwestern Baltic Sea
1998
Journal of Sedimentary Research
Issue: 68:6
Author(s): Scott W. Tinker
Title: Shelf-to-basin facies distributions and sequence stratigraphy of a steep-rimmed carbonate margin: Capitan depositional system, McKittrick Canyon, New Mexico and Texas
PALAIOS
Issue: 13:5
Author(s): Alice S. Chang & Kurt A. Grimm & Lisa D. White
Title: Diatomaceous sediments from the Miocene Monterey Formation, California: a lamina-scale investigation of biological, ecological, and sedimentary processes
1997
Journal of Sedimentary Research
Issue: 67:1
Author(s): Brian Jones & Robin Renaut & Michael Rosen
Title: Biogenicity of silica precipitation around geysers and hot spring vents, North Island, New Zealand
PALAIOS
Issue: 12:4
Author(s): Conrad Labandeira & Tom L. Phillips & Roy A. Norton
Title: Oribatid mites and the decomposition of plant tissues in PALAIOSeozoic coal-swamp forests
1996
Journal of Sedimentary Research
Issue: B66:6
Author(s): Bruce H. Wilkinson & Nathaniel W. Diedrich & Carl N. Drummond
Title: Facies successions in peritidal carbonate sequences
PALAIOS
Issue: 11:3
Author(s): Ronald E. Martin
Title: Secular Increase in Nutrient Levels through the Phanerozoic: Implications for Productivity, biomass and Diversity of the Marine Biosphere
1995
Journal of Sedimentary Research
Issue: B65:1
Author(s): Scudder D. Mackey & John S. Bridge
Title: Three-dimensional model of alluvial stratigraphy: theory and application
PALAIOS
Issue: 10:6
Author(s): Adolph Seilacher
Title: Ammonites as Cartesian Drivers
1994
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: B64:2
Author(s): John E. Koss & Frank G. Ethridge & Stanley A. Schumm
Title: An experimental study of the effects of base-level change on fluvial, coastal plain and shelf systems
PALAIOS
Issue: 9:6
Author(s): Martin Aberhan
Title: Guild-structure and Evolution of Mesozoic Benthic Shelf Communities
1993
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 63:3
Author(s): Robert Goldhammer & Patrick J. Lehmann & P. A. Dunn
Title: The origin of high-frequency platform carbonate cycles and third-order sequences (Lower Ordovician El Paso Group, west Texas): constraints from outcrop data and stratigraphic modeling
PALAIOS
Issue: 8:6
Author(s): Andrew H. Knoll & Ian J. Fairchild & Keene Swett
Title: Calcified Microbes in Neoproterozoic Carbonates: Implications for Our Understanding of the Proterozoic/Cambrian Transition
1992
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 62:5
Author(s): Isabel P. Montañez & J. Fred Read
Title: Fluid-Rock Interaction History During Stablilization of Early Dolomites, Upper Knox Group (Lower Ordovician) U. S. ApPALAIOSchians
PALAIOS
Issue: 7:6
Author(s): R. Wood & A. Y. Zhuralev & François Debrenne
Title: Functional Biology and Ecology of Archaeocyatha
1991
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 61:4
Author(s): Andrew D. Miall
Title: Stratigraphic Sequences and Their Chronostratyraphere Correlation
PALAIOS
Issue: 6:5
Author(s): Rodney Watkins
Title: Guild Structure and Tiering in a High-Diversity Silurian Community, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
1990
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 60:3
Author(s): Dennis K. Hubbard & Arnold I. Miller & David Scaturo
Title: Production and Cycling of Calcium Carbonate in a Shelf-Edge Reef System (St Croix, U. S Virgin Islands): Applications to the Nature of Reef Systems in the Fossil Record
PALAIOS
Issue: 5:5
Author(s): Roger Buick
Title: Microfossil in Archean Rocks: An Appraisal of Spheroids and Filaments from a 3500 Myr Old Chert-Barite Unit and North Pole, Western Australia
1989
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 59:5
Author(s): William F. Koerschner, III & James F. Read
Title: Field and Modeling Studies of Cambrian Carbonate Cycles, Virginia Appalachians
PALAIOS
Issue: 4:6
Author(s): Robert G. Maliva & Andrew H. Knoll & Raymond Siever
Title: Secular Change in Chert Distribution: A Reflection of Evolving Biological Participation in the Silica Cycle
1988
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 58:2
Author(s): David Houseknecht
Title: Intergranular Pressure Solution in Four Quartzose Sandstones
PALAIOS
Issue: 3:2
Author(s): Stephen M. Rowland & Roland A. Gangloff
Title: Structure and Paleoecology at Lower Cambrian Reefs
1987
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 57:4
Author(s): Thomas M. Brown & Mary J. Kraus
Title: Integration of Channel and Floodplain Suites, 1. Developmental Sequence and Lateral Relations of Alluvial Paleosols
PALAIOS
Issue: 2:3
Author(s): Robert V. Burne & Linda S. Moore
Title: Microbialites: Organosedimentary Deposits of Benthic Microbial Communities
1986
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 56:3
Author(s): Lee J. Suttner & Prodip K. Dutta
Title: Alluvial Sandstone Composition and Paleoclimate: I. Framework Mineralogy and II. Authigenic Mineralogy
PALAIOS
Issue: 1:4
Author(s): Paul L. Smith & Howard W. Tipper
Title: Plate Tectonics and Paleobiogeography: Early Jurassic (Pliensbachian) Endemism and Diversity
1985
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 55:5
Author(s): James M. Rine & Robert N. Ginsburg
Title: Depositional Facies of a Mud Shoreface in Suriname, South America - A Mud Analogue to Sandy, Shallow-Marine Deposits
1984
Journal of Paleontology
Issue: 58:5
Author(s): Carole S. Hickman
Title: Composition, Structure, Ecology and Evolution of Six Cenozoic Deep-Water Mollusk Communities
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 54:1
Author(s): Henry S. Chafetz & Robert L. Folk
Title: Travertinas: Depositional Morphology and the Bacterially Constructed Constituents
1983
Journal of Paleontology
Issue: 57:6
Author(s): Mark C. Tynan
Title: Coral-Like Microfossils from the Lower Cambrian of California
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 53:4
Author(s): Noel P. James & Colin F. Klappa
Title: Protogenesis of Early Cambrian Reef Limestones, Labrador, Canada
1982
Journal of Paleontology
Issue: 56:4
Author(s): S George Pemberton & Robert W. Frey
Title: Trace Fossil Nomenclature and the Planolites-PALAIOSaephycus Dilemma
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 52:3
Author(s): Michael Amdurer & Lynton S. Land
Title: Geochemistry, Hydrology and Mineralogy of the Sand Bulge Area, Laguna Madre Flats, South Texas
1981
Journal of Paleontology
Issue: 55:4
Author(s): Erle G. Kauffman & James R. Steidtmann
Title: Are These the Oldest Metzoan Trace Fossils?
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 51:3
Author(s): Ronald D. Kreisa
Title: Storm-Generated Sedimentary Structures in Subtidal Marine Facies with Examples from the Middle and Upper Ordovician of Southwestern Virginia
1980
Journal of Paleontology
Issue: 54:3
Author(s): Brett C. Ratcliffe & J. A. Fagerstrom
Title: Invertebrate Lebensspuren of Holocene Floodplains: Their Morphology, Origin and Paleoecological Significance
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 50:4
Author(s): Uwe Brand & Jan Veizer
Title: Chemical Diagenesis of a Multicomponent Carbonate System - 1: Trace Elements
1979
Journal of Paleontology
Issue: 53:5
Author(s): William I. Ausich & Thomas W. Kammer & N. Gary Lane
Title: Fossil Communities of the Borden (Mississippian) Delta in Indiana Northern Kentucky
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 49:2
Author(s): Harold R. Wanless
Title: Limestone Response to Stress: Pressure Solution and Dolomitization
1978
Journal of Paleontology
Issue: 52:3
Author(s): P. Lewis Steineck & Robert L. Fleisher
Title: Towards the Classical Evolutionary Reclassification of Cenozoic Globigerinacea (Foraminiferida)
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 48:4
Author(s): Bruce H. Wilkinson & Ed Landing
Title: Eggshell Diagenesis and Primary Radial Fabric in Calcite Ooids