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Stratigraphy and Paleolimnology of the Green River Formation, Western USA

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Editors:
  1. Michael Elliot Smith

    1. School of Earth Science and Environmental Sustainablity, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, USA

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  2. Alan R. Carroll

    1. Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA

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  • One stop reference for engaging with one of the world’s most important lake deposits
  • Latest stratigraphic and paleontologic insights on the Green River Formation
  • A comprehensive window into the Eocene Great Lakes of the Rocky Mountains

Part of the book series: Syntheses in Limnogeology (SYNLIMNO, volume 1)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction to the Green River Formation

    • Michael Elliot Smith, Alan R. Carroll
    Pages 1-12

  3. Initiation of Eocene Lacustrine Sedimentation in the Greater Green River Basin: Luman Member of the Green River Formation

    • Brooke Ann Norsted, Alan R. Carroll, Michael Elliot Smith
    Pages 13-30

  4. Lacustrine Sedimentology, Stratigraphy and Stable Isotope Geochemistry of the Tipton Member of the Green River Formation

    • Jennifer Walker Graf, Alan R. Carroll, Michael Elliot Smith
    Pages 31-60

  5. Stratigraphic Expression of Climate, Tectonism, and Geomorphic Forcing in an Underfilled Lake Basin: Wilkins Peak Member of the Green River Formation

    • Michael Elliot Smith, Alan R. Carroll, Jennifer Jane Scott
    Pages 61-102

  6. Lake Type Transition from Balanced-Fill to Overfilled: Laney Member, Green River Formation, Washakie Basin, Wyoming

    • Meredith K. Rhodes, Alan R. Carroll
    Pages 103-125

  7. Stratigraphy and Interbasinal Correlations Between Fossil and the Green River Basin, Wyoming

    • H. Paul Buchheim, Roberto E. Biaggi, Robert A. Cushman Jr.
    Pages 127-151

  8. Sedimentology of the World Class Organic-Rich Lacustrine System, Piceance Basin, Colorado

    • Kati Tänavsuu-Milkeviciene, J. Frederick Sarg
    Pages 153-181

  9. Mineralogy of the Green River Formation in the Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado

    • Jeremy Boak, Sheven Poole
    Pages 183-209

  10. Facies, Stratigraphic Architecture, and Lake Evolution of the Oil Shale Bearing Green River Formation, Eastern Uinta Basin, Utah

    • Morgan J. Rosenberg, Lauren P. Birgenheier, Michael D. Vanden Berg
    Pages 211-249

  11. Phosphatic Carbonate Shale of the “Bird’s Nest Saline Zone”, Upper Green River Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah

    • Dave Keighley
    Pages 251-276

  12. Evaporites of the Green River Formation, Bridger and Piceance Creek Basins: Deposition, Diagenesis, Paleobrine Chemistry, and Eocene Atmospheric CO2

    • Elliot A. Jagniecki, Tim K. Lowenstein
    Pages 277-312

  13. Trace Fossils of the Eocene Green River Lake Basins, Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado

    • Jennifer Jane Scott, Michael Elliot Smith
    Pages 313-350

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 351-355
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About this book

This volume presents a suite of detailed stratigraphic and sedimentologic investigations of the Eocene Green River Formation of Wyoming, Colorado and Utah, one of the world’s foremost terrestrial archives of lacustrine and alluvial deposition during the warmest portion of the early Cenozoic. Its twelve chapters encompass the rich and varied record of lacustrine stratigraphy, sedimentology, geochronology, geochemistry and paleontology. Chapters 2-9 provide detailed member-scale synthesis of Green River Formation strata within the Greater Green River, Fossil, Piceance Creek and Uinta Basins, while its final two chapters address its enigmatic evaporite deposits and ichnofossils at broad, interbasinal scale.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Earth Science and Environmental Sustainablity, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, USA

    Michael Elliot Smith

  • Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA

    Alan R. Carroll

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Stratigraphy and Paleolimnology of the Green River Formation, Western USA

  • Editors: Michael Elliot Smith, Alan R. Carroll

  • Series Title: Syntheses in Limnogeology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9906-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9905-8Published: 14 July 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0603-0Published: 21 February 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9906-5Published: 02 July 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2211-2731

  • Series E-ISSN: 2211-274X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 355

  • Number of Illustrations: 58 b/w illustrations, 93 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Sedimentology, Geomorphology, Paleontology, Earth Sciences, general

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