High-resolution records of rainfall events from clay bands in tufa

Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 793-796

  Kano, Akihiro ^a   Kawai, Tatsuya ^a   Matsuoka, Jun ^b   Ihara, Takuji ^c  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OYO Cooperation Okayama   (Japan)

Author keywords

High resolution record; Paleoclimatology; Rainfall; Travertines; Tufas

Indexed keywords

CLAY BANDS; FRESHWATER; TUFA SURFACES;

CARBONATES; CLAY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ISOTOPES; SURFACES; X RAY ANALYSIS;

RAIN;

CARBONATE SEDIMENT; LAMINATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; TRAVERTINE; TUFA;

EID: 4744349382     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G20736.1     Document Type: Article

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