Late Quaternary climate change, loess sedimentation, and soil profile development in the central Great Plains: A pedosedimentary model

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 462-475

  Jacobs, Peter M ^a   Mason, Joseph A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WHITEWATER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Great Plains; Holocene; Loess; Paleosols; Soils; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

GREAT PLAINS; HOLOCENE BIGNELL LOESS; PEDOSEDIMENTARY HISTORY; SOIL GENESIS;

CLAY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITION; SEDIMENTATION; SOILS; WEATHERING;

STRATIGRAPHY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; LOESS; PEDOGENESIS; SEDIMENTATION; SOIL PROFILE; SUBSOIL;

GREAT PLAINS; NORTH AMERICA;

PEORIA;

EID: 33947427143     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25868.1     Document Type: Article

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