Intra-basaltic soil formation, sedimentary reworking and eodiagenetic K-enrichment in the Middle to Upper Ordovician Dunn Point Formation of eastern Canada: A rare window into early Palaeozoic surface and near-surface conditions

Geological Magazine

Volumn 149, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 798-818

  Jutras, P ^a   Hanley, J J ^a   Quillan, R S ^a   Leforte, M J ^a  

^a SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

alkaline groundwater; cheluviation; element mobility; intra basaltic palaeosols; Ordovician; pedogenesis; potassium enrichment

Indexed keywords

BEVERAGES; GROUNDWATER; SILICON; TEXTURES;

CHELUVIATION; ELEMENT MOBILITY; ORDOVICIAN; PALAEOSOLS; PEDOGENESIS;

SOILS;

ELEMENT MOBILITY; ENRICHMENT; GROUNDWATER; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; ION EXCHANGE; MAFIC ROCK; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOSOL; PEDOGENESIS; POTASSIUM; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL PROPERTY; VEGETATION COVER;

CANADA;

EID: 84864458259     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756811001026     Document Type: Article

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