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

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 431-443

  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 ISOTOPE COMPOSITION; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GRASSLAND ECOSYSTEMS; ICE VOLUMES; ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS; LAND MAMMALS; LATE MIOCENE; LONG-TERM TREND; NEO GENES; NORTH AMERICAN; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE GLACIATIONS; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PALEOCLIMATE PROXY; PALEOCLIMATES; PEDOGENIC CARBONATES; PHOTOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; PLEISTOCENE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOIL WATER; SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS; STABLE ISOTOPES; STABLE OXYGEN ISOTOPES; STANDARD MEAN OCEAN WATERS; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

BIOMASS; CARBONATES; CARBONATION; ECOLOGY; OXYGEN; SOIL MOISTURE;

ISOTOPES;

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

GREAT PLAINS; KANSAS; MEADE BASIN; UNITED STATES;

BELEMNOIDEA; MAMMALIA; POACEAE;

EID: 84863511883     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30402.1     Document Type: Article

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