Lateritized tephric palaeosols from Central Patagonia, Argentina: A southern high-latitude archive of Palaeogene global greenhouse conditions

Sedimentology

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1721-1749

  Krause, Javier Marcelo ^a,d   Bellosi, Eduardo Sergio ^b,c   Raigemborn, María Sol ^d  

^a MUSEO PALEONTOLÓGICO EGIDIO FERUGLIO   (Argentina)

^b Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas ^*  (Argentina)

^c MUSEO ARGENTINO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA   (Argentina)

^d National University of La Plata Centro de Investigaciones Geologicas   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Central Patagonia; Early Palaeogene global warming; EECO; Lateritized palaeosols

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATING CYCLE; ARGENTINA; CARBONATE CEMENT; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CLIMATE INDICATORS; DRYING CONDITION; EARLY PALAEOGENE GLOBAL WARMING; EECO; GRANULAR STRUCTURESS; GREENHOUSE CONDITIONS; HIGH CONCENTRATION; LATE EOCENE; LATERITIZED PALAEOSOLS; MEAN ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; MEAN ANNUAL TEMPERATURES; MIDDLE SECTION; MINERAL DISTRIBUTION; PATAGONIA; SMECTITES; SOIL DEVELOPMENT; SOUTH AMERICA; SUB-HUMID;

GEOCHEMISTRY; GLOBAL WARMING; KAOLIN; KAOLINITE; LEACHING; MANGANESE; SILICATE MINERALS; SOIL MECHANICS; STRATIGRAPHY;

WEATHERING;

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; EOCENE; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; IRON HYDROXIDE; IRON OXIDE; KAOLINITE; LATERITIZATION; PALEOGENE; PALEOSOL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; SMECTITE; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

ARGENTINA; PATAGONIA;

EID: 78649426750     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2010.01161.x     Document Type: Article

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