Hot or not? Impact of seasonally variable soil carbonate formation on paleotemperature and O-isotope records from clumped isotope thermometry

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 361, Issue , 2013, Pages 208-218

  Peters, Nathan A ^a   Huntington, Katharine W ^a   Hoke, Gregory D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clumped isotope thermometry; Paleoaltimetry; Paleoclimate; Pedogenic carbonate; Stable isotopes; Temperature proxy

Indexed keywords

CLUMPED ISOTOPE THERMOMETRY; PALEOALTIMETRY; PALEOCLIMATES; PEDOGENIC CARBONATES; STABLE ISOTOPES; TEMPERATURE PROXY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBONATES; CARBONATION; PORE PRESSURE; SOIL MOISTURE; THERMOMETERS;

ISOTOPES;

ALTIMETRY; CARBONATE; GEOTHERMOMETRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; PEDOGENESIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOIL WATER; STABLE ISOTOPE;

EID: 84872307615     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.10.024     Document Type: Article

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