Regional trends in clay mineral fluxes to the Queensland margin and ties to middle Miocene global cooling

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 233, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 204-224

  John, Cédric M ^a   Adatte, Thierry ^b   Mutti, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b CH 2000   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Australia; Clay minerals; Climate fluctuation; Continental margin; Eustasy; ODP Leg 194; Weathering

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; CLAY MINERAL; GLOBAL CLIMATE; KAOLINITE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MIOCENE; OCEANIC CURRENT; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SMECTITE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; MARION PLATEAU; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 33645890889     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.09.010     Document Type: Article

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