Oxygen isotope evidence for high-altitude snow in the Laramide Rocky Mountains of North America during the Late Cretaceous and Paleogene

Geology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 243-246

  Dettman, D L ^a   Lohmann, K C ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; Meteoric waters; Oxygen isotopes; Paleoaltitude; Paleocene

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; OXYGEN; RIVERS; SNOW; STRATIGRAPHY;

CRETACEOUS; METEORIC WATERS; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PALEOALTITUDE; PALEOCENE;

ISOTOPES;

CRETACEOUS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LARAMIDE OROGENY; METEORIC WATER; PALEOCENE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SNOW; TERTIARY;

NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

EID: 0034431765     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2000)28<243:OIEFHS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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