Terrestrial records of a regional weathering profile at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary in the Williston Basin of North Dakota

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 428-442

  Clechenko, Elizabeth R ^a   Kelly, D Clay ^a   Harrington, Guy J ^b   Stiles, Cynthia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Golden Valley Formation; Kaolinite; Paleocene Eocene thermal maximum; Williston Basin

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE EXCURSION; PALEOCENE-EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUM; WILLISTON BASIN;

GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROGEOLOGY; KAOLINITE; ORGANIC CARBON; STRATIGRAPHY;

WEATHERING;

HYPSITHERMAL; KAOLINITE; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; PEDOGENESIS; STRATIGRAPHY; WEATHERING;

NORTH AMERICA; WILLISTON BASIN;

EID: 33947401061     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26010.1     Document Type: Article

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