Postapocalyptic greenhouse paleoclimate revealed by earliest Triassic paleosols in the Sydney Basin, Australia

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 52-70

  Retallack, Gregory J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL DEPOSITS; DEFORESTATION; GREENHOUSES; ISOTOPES; ORGANIC CARBON; SOILS; WEATHERING;

CARBON CYCLES; HIGH LATITUDES; ISOTOPIC STUDY; ISOTOPIC VALUES; PALEOCLIMATES; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; SEDIMENTATION RATES; SYDNEY BASINS;

COAL;

GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; TRIASSIC;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; SYDNEY BASIN;

EID: 84879883020     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<0052:PGPRBE>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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