The stratigraphic and geochemical record of Playa Cycles: Monitoring a Pangaean monsoon-like system (Triassic, Middle Keuper, S. Germany)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 161, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 205-227

  Reinhardt, Lutz ^a   Ricken, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cyclicity; Major element geochemistry; Middle Keuper; Monsoon; Palaeoclimate; Playa; Southern Germany; Spectral analysis; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CYCLICITY; GEOCHEMISTRY; KEUPER; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PANGAEA; PLAYA; STRATIGRAPHY; TRIASSIC;

GERMANY;

EID: 0034253850     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(00)00124-3     Document Type: Article

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