The timing of Quaternary calcrete development in semi-arid southeast Spain: Investigating the role of climate on calcrete genesis

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 220, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 6-15

  Candy, Ian ^a   Black, Stuart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calcrete; Palaeoenvironmental change; Southeast Spain; U series

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; CALCRETE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATABASE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PEDOGENESIS; QUATERNARY; SEMIARID REGION; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

ALMERIA [ANDALUCIA]; ANDALUCIA; BETIC CORDILLERA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SORBAS BASIN; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 84861012782     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2009.03.005     Document Type: Article

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