Climatic interpretation of a 1.9 Ma environmental magnetic record of loess deposition and soil formation in the central eastern Pampas of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 19-20, 2010, Pages 2705-2718

  Heil, Clifford W ^a   King, John W ^a   Zárate, Marcelo A ^b   Schultz, Peter H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PAMPA   (Argentina)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; BUENOS AIRES , ARGENTINA; CHINESE LOESS; CLIMATE RECORD; FERRIMAGNETIC MINERALS; GLACIAL PERIOD; GRAIN SIZE VARIATION; HIGH PRESSURE CELLS; ICE CORE; LOESS DEPOSITION; MAGNETIC GRAIN SIZE; MAGNETIC GRAINS; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; MOISTURE TRANSPORT; PEDOGENIC PROCESS; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY CLIMATE; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; SOIL FORMATIONS; SOURCE REGION; SOUTH ATLANTIC; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STUDY AREAS; SUMMER SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS; ULTRAFINE-GRAINED; WIND PATTERNS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; IRON ORES; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETISM; MOISTURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXIDE MINERALS; SOILS; SOLAR RADIATION; STRATIGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHERING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BRUNHES CHRON; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLOBAL OCEAN; GRAIN SIZE; INSOLATION; LOESS; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALEOSOL; PLEISTOCENE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

ARGENTINA; BUENOS AIRES [ARGENTINA];

EID: 77955560671     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.06.024     Document Type: Article

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