Paleosol archives of environmental and climatic history in paleotropical western Pangea during the latest Pennsylvanian through Early Permian

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 441, Issue , 2008, Pages 291-303

  Tabor, Neil J ^a   Montanez, Isabel P ^b   Scotese, Christopher R ^c   Poulsen, Christopher J ^d   Mack, Greg H ^e  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Paleoclimate; Paleoenvironment; Paleosol; Pennsylvanian; Permian

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS; TROPICS;

PALEO-ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCLIMATES; PALEOSOL; PENNSYLVANIANS; PERMIAN;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLATITUDE; PALEOSOL; PANGAEA; PENNSYLVANIAN; PERMIAN;

ARIZONA; COLORADO; NEW MEXICO; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; TEXAS; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

VIRGILIA;

EID: 64949166844     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2441(20)     Document Type: Article

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