A new paleothermometer for forest paleosols and its implications for Cenozoic climate

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 647-650

  Gallagher, Timothy M ^a   Sheldon, Nathan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; FOREST VEGETATION; MEAN ANNUAL TEMPERATURES; PALEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; PEAK TEMPERATURES; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE PROXY; WEATHERING INDICES;

CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; FORESTRY;

SOILS;

ALTIMETRY; CATION; CENOZOIC; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; FOREST SOIL; NEOGENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; RECONSTRUCTION; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATES; FORESTRY; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SOIL;

OREGON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84878195738     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G34074.1     Document Type: Article

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