Mineralogical and geochemical evolution of a basalt-hosted fossil soil (Late Triassic, Ischigualasto Formation, northwest Argentina): Potential for paleoenvironmental reconstruction

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 9-10, 2004, Pages 1280-1293

  Tabor, Neil J ^a   Montanez, Isabel P ^b   Zierenberg, Robert ^b   Currie, Brian S ^c  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clay mineralogy; Mineral weathering; Oxygen and hydrogen isotopes of pedogenic minerals; Paleoclimate; Paleosols

Indexed keywords

KAOLINITE; PALEOCLIMATIC CONDITIONS; PEDOGENESIS;

BASALT; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; ISOTOPES; MINERALOGY; POSITIVE IONS; SEDIMENTS; SOILS; WEATHERING;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

BASALT; MINERALOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSOL; PARENT MATERIAL; SOIL CHEMISTRY; TRIASSIC;

ARGENTINA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 4644230624     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25222.1     Document Type: Article

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