Red palaeosols sequence in a semiarid Mediterranean environment region

Environmental Geology

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1093-1102

  Gonzalez Martin J A ^a   Rubio Fernandez V ^a   Garcia Gimenez R ^a   Jiménez Ballesta, Raimundo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Central Spain; Mediterranean; Palaeoclimate; Palaeosols; Pleistocene; Red soils

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EROSION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

AEOLIAN SANDS; PALAEO CLIMATE; PALAEOSOLS; PLEISTOCENES; RED SOILS;

SOILS;

CLAY MINERAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; PLEISTOCENE; PROVENANCE; RED SOIL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; MADRID BASIN; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 33846601734     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-006-0400-4     Document Type: Article

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