Lateritization and bauxitization events

Economic Geology

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 655-667

  Retallack, Gregory J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE; AUSTRALIA; CARBONIC ACIDS; CENOZOIC; CRYPTOMELANE; EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION; FLOOD BASALT VOLCANISM; GEOLOGIC AGE; LAND-MASSES; LONG DISTANCES; MASS EXTINCTION; METEORITE IMPACT; METHANE OUTBURST; MN OXIDES; ORE GRADES; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; TRANSIENT FLUCTUATIONS; TROPICAL SOILS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BASALT; CARBON DIOXIDE; GREENHOUSES; MANGANESE; METEOR IMPACTS; METHANE; NIOBIUM; ORGANIC ACIDS; PHOSPHORUS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; STRATIGRAPHY; TRACE ELEMENTS; WEATHERING;

SOILS;

BAUXITE; CENOZOIC; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; LATERITE; LATERITIZATION; MASS EXTINCTION; ORE GRADE; PALEOSOL; TROPICAL SOIL; VOLCANIC ROCK;

EID: 78149425088     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.105.3.655     Document Type: Article

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