Pedogenic carbonate stable isotope record of environmental change during the Neogene in the southern Great Plains, southwest Kansas, USA: Carbon isotopes and the evolution of C4-dominated grasslands

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 444-462

  Fox, David L ^a   Honey, James G ^b   Martin, Robert A ^c   Peláez Campomanes, Pablo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPES; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXTS; GRASSLAND ECOSYSTEMS; LAND MAMMALS; LATE MIOCENE; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MIOCENE; NEO GENES; NORTH AMERICAN; PEDOGENIC CARBONATES; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SMALL MAMMALS; SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS; STABLE CARBON ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS; STABLE ISOTOPES; WARM-CLIMATE GRASS;

CARBON; CARBONATES; CARBONATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; MAMMALS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

BIOMASS;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBONATE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GRASSLAND; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MIOCENE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSOL; PEDOGENESIS; STABLE ISOTOPE;

BIOMASS; CARBON; CARBONATES; CARBONATION; ECOSYSTEMS; ISOTOPES; MAMMALS; PLAINS STATES (USA); PLANTS;

GREAT PLAINS; KANSAS; MEADE BASIN; UNITED STATES;

BELEMNOIDEA; HEMPHILLIA; MAMMALIA; POACEAE;

EID: 84861454773     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30401.1     Document Type: Article

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