TY - JOUR
T1 - Mississippian wood-grained chert and its significance in the western interior United States ( Deseret limestone).
AU - Decelles, P. G.
AU - Gutschick, R. C.
PY - 1983
Y1 - 1983
N2 - Wood-grained chert is nodular chert which has internal light- and dark-colored, concentric, 3-D, compositional banding resembling grain in wood. The light-colored bands are dolomitic and the dark-colored bands are quartzose with carbonaceous matter. It is recognized in the Mississippian Lodgepole, Deseret, and Great Blue Limestones and some correlatives of these formations in Montana, Utah, and Idaho. The Deseret starved basin model provides a paleogeographic framework that restricts the wood-grained cherts in this basin to the foreslope between the oxygenated carbonate platform margin and the anaerobic-dysaerobic deep water basin. Wood-grained chert may mark the approximate position of the lower limit of the pycnocline in the Deseret starved basin.-from Authors
AB - Wood-grained chert is nodular chert which has internal light- and dark-colored, concentric, 3-D, compositional banding resembling grain in wood. The light-colored bands are dolomitic and the dark-colored bands are quartzose with carbonaceous matter. It is recognized in the Mississippian Lodgepole, Deseret, and Great Blue Limestones and some correlatives of these formations in Montana, Utah, and Idaho. The Deseret starved basin model provides a paleogeographic framework that restricts the wood-grained cherts in this basin to the foreslope between the oxygenated carbonate platform margin and the anaerobic-dysaerobic deep water basin. Wood-grained chert may mark the approximate position of the lower limit of the pycnocline in the Deseret starved basin.-from Authors
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U2 - 10.1306/212F833C-2B24-11D7-8648000102C1865D
DO - 10.1306/212F833C-2B24-11D7-8648000102C1865D
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0020897912
SN - 0022-4472
VL - 53
SP - 1175
EP - 1191
JO - Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
JF - Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
IS - 4
ER -