Comparison of clay mineral stratigraphy to other proxy palaeoclimate indicators in the Mesozoic of NW Europe

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 360, Issue 1793, 2002, Pages 675-693

  Ruffell, Alastair ^a   McKinley, Jennifer M ^a   Worden, Richard H ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clay minerals; Geochemistry; Kaolinite; Mesozoic; Palaeoclimates; Smectite

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM SILICATE; MINERAL;

ASTRONOMY; CHEMISTRY; CLAY; CLIMATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EUROPE; PALEONTOLOGY; REVIEW; SEDIMENT; SOIL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALUMINUM SILICATES; CLIMATE; EUROPE; EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MINERALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PALEONTOLOGY; SOIL;

EID: 0037090772     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2001.0961     Document Type: Review

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