Provenance of sediments deposited at paleolake San Felipe, western Sonora Desert: Implications to regimes of summer and winter precipitation during last 50 cal kyr BP

Journal of Arid Environments

Volumn 81, Issue , 2012, Pages 47-58

  Roy, P D ^a   Caballero, M ^a   Lozano, S ^a   Morton, O ^a   Lozano, R ^a   Jonathan, M P ^b   Sanchez J L ^a   Macias M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; Pleistocene Holocene; Provenance; Rainfall regime; Rare earth element; Sonora Desert

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; CATCHMENT; DUNE; EOLIAN PROCESS; EROSION RATE; GEOCHEMISTRY; GRAIN SIZE; MINERALOGY; MOBILIZATION; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PLAGIOCLASE; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROVENANCE; QUARTZ; RAINFALL; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SUMMER; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND EROSION; WINTER;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; SAN FELIPE [YUCATAN]; SONORAN DESERT; YUCATAN;

EID: 84858000320     PISSN: 01401963     EISSN: 1095922X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2012.01.008     Document Type: Article

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