Palaeoenvironmental significance of Late Permian palaeosols in the South-Eastern Iberian Ranges, Spain

Sedimentology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1849-1873

  De La Horra, Raúl ^a   Benito, Ma Isabel ^a   López gómez, Jose ^a   Arche, Alfredo ^a   Barrenechea, José ^b   Luque, Javier ^b  

^a Universidad Complutense de Madrid CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biotic crisis; Iberian Ranges; Late Permian; Palaeosols; Permian Triassic boundary

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; FORMATION MECHANISM; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOSOL; PERMIAN; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; PETROGRAPHY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOIL PROFILE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN CORDILLERA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 56349118122     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2008.00969.x     Document Type: Article

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