Extremely high temperatures and paleoclimate trends recorded in permian ephemeral lake halite

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 587-590

  Zambito, James J ^a   Benison, Kathleen C ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL SETTING; DIURNAL TEMPERATURE RANGES; HOMOGENIZATION TEMPERATURES; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; PALEOCLIMATE CHANGE; PALEOTEMPERATURES; QUANTITATIVE DATA; WATER TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; LAKES; MINERALOGY;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEGLACIATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EPHEMERAL LAKE; FLUID INCLUSION; HALITE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PALEOZOIC; PERMIAN; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); WATER TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84876808279     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G34078.1     Document Type: Article

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