Clay assemblage and oxygen isotopic constraints on the weathering response to the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum, East Coast of North America

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 591-594

  John, Cédric M ^a   Banerjee, Neil R ^b   Longstaffe, Fred J ^b   Sica, Cheyenne ^b   Law, Kimberley R ^b   Zachos, James C ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPES; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CLAY ASSEMBLAGES; CLAY MINERAL ASSEMBLAGES; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EAST COAST; HIGH RESOLUTION; HUMID CONDITIONS; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NEW JERSEY; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RECORDS; OXYGEN ISOTOPIC; PALEOCENE-EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUMS; SEASONAL PRECIPITATIONS;

EROSION; GLOBAL WARMING; KAOLINITE; OXYGEN; SOILS; WEATHERING;

ISOTOPES;

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; EXHUMATION; HYPSITHERMAL; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; KAOLINITE; LATERITE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY;

BASS RIVER; NEW JERSEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864291758     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32785.1     Document Type: Article

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