Stratigraphic and tectonic implications of a newly discovered glacial diamictite–cap carbonate couplet in southwestern Mongolia

Geology - Tập 37 Số 2 - Trang 123-126 - 2009
Francis A. Macdonald1, David S. Jones1, Daniel P. Schrag1
1Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 USA

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