Late Quaternary vadose carbonate diagenesis in coastal and desert dune and beach sands: Is there a palaeoclimatic signal?

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1441-1458

  McLaren, Sue ^a   Gardner, Rita ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Royal Geographical Society ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aeolianite; Palaeoclimate; Raised beach; Vadose carbonate diagenesis

Indexed keywords

BEACHES; CARBONATES; CEMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; DEPOSITS; GROUNDWATER; SEDIMENTS;

CLIMATIC ZONES; GROUNDWATER TABLE; PALAEOCLIMATIC CONTROL; VADOSE DIAGENESIS;

SAND;

CEMENTATION; DIAGENESIS; HOLOCENE; LAST INTERGLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RAISED BEACH; VADOSE ZONE;

EID: 10944255812     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1132     Document Type: Article

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