Sea-level, humidity, and land-erosion records across the initial Eocene thermal maximum from a continental-marine transect in northern Spain

Geology

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 689-692

  Schmitz, Birger ^a,b   Pujalte, Victoriano ^c  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Earth Sciences Centre   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carbon isotopes; Carbonate nodules; Humidity; Paleosols; Sea level

Indexed keywords

SOIL FORMATION;

CORRELATION METHODS; EVAPORATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SEA LEVEL; SOIL MECHANICS;

EROSION;

CARBON ISOTOPE; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; EOCENE; HUMIDITY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; STRATIGRAPHY;

SPAIN;

EID: 0141537081     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G19527.1     Document Type: Article

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