Isotopic composition of low-latitude paleoprecipitation during the Early Cretaceous

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 11-12, 2009, Pages 1584-1595

  Suarez, Marina B ^a   González, Luis A ^a   Ludvigson, Gregory A ^b   Vega, Francisco J ^c   Alvarado Ortega, Jesús ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODEL; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EARLY CRETACEOUS; EMPIRICAL DATA; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EVAPORATION FLUX; EVAPORATIVE LOSS; FUTURE CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GREENHOUSE CONDITIONS; GYPSUM CRYSTALS; HYDROLOGIC CYCLES; ISOTOPE MASS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC DATA; ISOTOPIC VALUES; MATRIX; ME-XICO; METEORIC WATERS; NEARSHORES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PALEOPRECIPITATION; PEDOGENIC CARBONATES; PRECIPITATION RATES; PROXY DATA; RAIN-OUT; STANDARD MEAN OCEAN WATERS; TIDAL FLAT; TROPICAL LATITUDES; TROPICAL REGIONS;

CARBONATE MINERALS; CLIMATE MODELS; EVAPORATION; FABRICS; GREENHOUSES; GROUNDWATER; GYPSUM; HYDROGEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; MOLDS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXYGEN; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TROPICS; VAPORS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ALBIAN; APTIAN; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DIAGENESIS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE GAS; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MASS BALANCE; METEORIC WATER; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOLATITUDE; PETROGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; PUEBLA [MEXICO]; TLAYUA QUARRY;

EID: 76249126885     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26453.1     Document Type: Article

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