Rock varnish: Recorder of desert wetness?

GSA Today

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 4-10

  Broecker, W S ^a   Liu, Tanzhuo ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLAY MINERAL; DESERT; PALEOCLIMATE; ROCK VARNISH;

EID: 0035718584     PISSN: 10525173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/1052-5173(2001)011<0004:RVRODW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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