Quantifying time scales of pedogenic calcrete formation using U-series disequilibria

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 170, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 177-187

  Candy, Ian ^a,b   Black, S ^a   Sellwood, B W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alluvial terraces; Calcrete; Quaternary; Spain; U series dating

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; CALCRETE; CEMENTATION; QUATERNARY; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; WORLD;

EID: 10044279536     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2004.07.003     Document Type: Article

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