Anomalous cold in the Pangaean tropics

Geology

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 659-662

  Soreghan, Gerilyn S ^a   Soreghan, Michael J ^a   Poulsen, Christopher J ^b   Young, Roger A ^a   Eble, Cortland F ^c   Sweet, Dustin E ^a   Davogustto, Oswaldo C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestral Rocky Mountains; Cutler formation; Equatorial; Glaciation; Gondwana; Late Paleozoic; Paleoclimate; Pangaea; Paradox basin; Pennsylvanian; Permian; Permo Carboniferous; Tropical; Unaweep Canyon; Uncompahgre uplift

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRAL ROCKY MOUNTAINS; CUTLER FORMATION; EQUATORIAL; GLACIATION; GONDWANA; LATE PALEOZOIC; PALEOCLIMATE; PANGAEA; PARADOX BASIN; PENNSYLVANIAN; PERMIAN; PERMO-CARBONIFEROUS; TROPICAL; UNAWEEP CANYON; UNCOMPAHGRE UPLIFT;

LANDFORMS; SILT;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CARBONIFEROUS; GLACIATION; GONDWANA; ICE SHEET; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOZOIC; PANGAEA; PERIGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; PHANEROZOIC;

NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

EID: 50349085033     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G24822A.1     Document Type: Article

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