Rock magnetic properties of a soil developed on an alluvial deposit at Buttermilk Creek, Texas, USA

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Lindquist, Anna K ^a   Feinberg, Joshua M ^a   Waters, Michael R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

archeology; environmental magnetism; rock magnetism; soil; vertisol

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); DAIRY PRODUCTS; DEPOSITS; GEOMAGNETISM; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; RIVERS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOILS; STRATIGRAPHY;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSITS; ARCHEOLOGICAL SITES; ARCHEOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MAGNETISM; FLOODPLAIN DEPOSITS; FLOODPLAIN SEDIMENTS; FLOODPLAIN SOILS; INITIAL DEPOSITIONS; MAGNETIC PARAMETERS; MAGNETIC PARTICLE; MAGNETIC SIGNALS; ROCK MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; ROCK MAGNETISM; SEDIMENTARY UNITS; SOIL DEVELOPMENT; TEXAS , USA; VERTISOLS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FLOODPLAIN; GEOMAGNETISM; LITHIC FRAGMENT; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; MAGNETIZATION; PEDOGENESIS; ROCK; VERTISOL;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84855280096     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GC003848     Document Type: Article

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