Imprints of post-glacial climates and palaeogeography in the detrital clay mineral assemblages of an Upper Permian fluviolacustrine Gondwana deposit from northern Malawi

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 125, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 27-49

  Yemane, Keddy ^a   Kahr, Gunther ^b   Kelts, Kerry ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY MINERALOGY; GONDWANA; PALAEOCLIMATE; PALAEOENVIRONMENT; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; PERMIAN;

MALAWI;

EID: 0030251291     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(96)00023-5     Document Type: Article

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