Climate control on quaternary coal fires and landscape evolution, powder river basin, Wyoming and Montana

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 255-258

  Riihimaki, Catherine A ^a   Reiners, Peter W ^b   Heffern, Edward L ^c  

^a DREW UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FLUCTUATIONS; COAL FIRES; COAL SEAMS; EARTH'S ORBIT; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLES; GLOBAL ICE VOLUME; IN-SITU; INTERGLACIAL PERIODS; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; LATE CENOZOIC; MONTANA; NEAR-EARTH; NEAR-SURFACE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RECORDS; PALEOCENE; POWDER RIVER BASIN; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SOLAR INSOLATION; TEMPORAL PATTERN; UNDERLYING COAL BED; WYOMING;

CLIMATE CONTROL; COAL; COAL DEPOSITS; HELIUM; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; POWDERS; RIVER CONTROL; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TIME SERIES; WATERSHEDS;

COAL INDUSTRY;

CENOZOIC; COAL SEAM; EROSION; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTARY ROCK;

MONTANA; NORTH AMERICA; POWDER BASIN; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 69649087739     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25195A.1     Document Type: Article

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