Large-scale climatic fluctuations in the latest Ordovician on the Yangtze block, South China

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 599-602

  Yan, Detian ^a,b   Chen, Daizhao ^a   Wang, Qingchen ^a   Wang, Jianguo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID CLIMATES; CHEMICAL INDEX OF ALTERATIONS; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CLIMATIC CHANGES; CLIMATIC FLUCTUATIONS; COLD CLIMATE; HOT AND HUMID CLIMATE; MASS EXTINCTION; ORDOVICIAN; SOUTH CHINA; WARM CLIMATES; YANGTZE BLOCK;

GEOCHEMISTRY; SOIL MECHANICS;

WEATHERING;

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; DEPOSITION; MASS EXTINCTION; ORDOVICIAN; ORDOVICIAN-SILURIAN BOUNDARY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CHINA; YANGTZE PLATFORM;

EID: 77956033690     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30961.1     Document Type: Article

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