Reconstructing a mid-Cretaceous landscape from paleosols in western Canada

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 984-996

  Ufnar, David F ^a   González, Luis A ^b   Ludvigson, Greg A ^c,d   Brenner, Robert L ^e   Witzke, Brian J ^c   Leckie, Dale ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c Geological Survey Bureau   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^f CNOOC LTD   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA LEVEL;

CLIMATE CONDITION; CONTINENTAL CLIMATE; GENETIC SIMILARITIES; HYDROLOGIC CYCLES; HYDROMORPHIC SOILS; SEA LEVEL RISE; SOIL DEVELOPMENT; SPHAEROSIDERITES;

SOILS;

CRETACEOUS; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PALEOSOL;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ZIZIPHUS MAURITIANA;

EID: 28144441785     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2005.074     Document Type: Article

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