Physical compaction of vertic palaeosols: Implications for burial diagenesis and palaeo-precipitation estimates

Sedimentology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 673-685

  Caudill, Michael R ^a   Driese, Steven G ^a   Mora, Claudia I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURIAL; CLASTIC DYKE; COMPACTION; DIAGENESIS; PALAEOPRECIPITATION; PALAEOSOL; PALEOSOL;

EID: 0030843068     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.1997.d01-46.x     Document Type: Article

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