Annual monsoon rains recorded by Jurassic dunes

Nature

Volumn 412, Issue 6842, 2001, Pages 64-66

  Loope, David B ^a   Rowe, Clinton M ^a   Joeckel, R Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; SANDSTONE; STORMS; STRATIGRAPHY;

SLUMP MASSES;

RAIN;

RAIN;

DUNE; JURASSIC; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PANGAEA; SUPERCONTINENT;

ARTICLE; GEOLOGY; HISTORY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THICKNESS; UNITED STATES; WEATHER;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035811493     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35083554     Document Type: Article

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