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MISSISSIPPIAN CARBONATE [1 record]

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Record 1 2004-08-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
CONT

The sequence pinches out against Mississippian carbonates to the northeast, with the Bluesky sediments onlapping those of the Gething Formation.

OBS

Mississippian: A period of the Paleozoic era (after the Devonian and before the Pennsylvanian), thought to have covered the span of time between 345 and 320 million years ago; also, the corresponding system of rocks.

OBS

carbonate rock: A rock ... that consists chiefly of carbonate minerals ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie

Spanish

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