A Late Triassic soil catena: Landscape and climate controls on paleosol morphology and chemistry across the Carnian-age Ischigualasto-Villa Union basin, northwestern Argentina

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 416, Issue , 2006, Pages 17-41

  Tabor, Neil J ^a   Montañez, Isabel P ^b   Kelso, Kelley A ^b   Currie, Brian ^c   Shipman, Todd ^d   Colombi, Carina ^e  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Arizona Geological Survey   (United States)

^e Instituto y Museo de Ciencias Naturales (CONICET)   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Argentina; Catena; Paleoclimate; Paleosols; Triassic

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CATCHMENTS; DEPOSITION; GROUNDWATER; MORPHOLOGY; SOLS; STRATIGRAPHY;

ARGENTINA; CATENA; PALEOCLIMATES; PALEOSOLS; TRIASSIC;

SOILS;

BASIN; CALCITE; CATENA; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENT; SOIL; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL DRAINAGE; TRANSECT; TRIASSIC;

ARGENTINA;

EID: 62949146164     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2416(02)     Document Type: Article

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